Author Archives: Dave Pollard

Our Tastes and Propensities Are Conditioned Too

Posted on March 22, 2024 by Dave Pollard

K-Pop group XG, one of my conditioned tastes Much of my recent writing has been focused on the realization, once you give up the idea of ‘free will’, that all of our beliefs and behaviours are completely the result of … Continue reading →

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Incompetent

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Dave Pollard

image by beastywizard on DeviantArt — CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 The urge to hold someone or something ‘responsible’ for the ruination of our planet is pretty hard to resist. For years I blamed corporations and their bought-and-paid-for politicians. Or I blamed … Continue reading →

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Three Characters Walk Into a Bistro…

Posted on March 18, 2024 by Dave Pollard

This is a work of fiction.

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Links of the Month: March 2024

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Dave Pollard

image from gapingvoid.com; Hugh may have meant this seriously; I mean it ironically It’s almost as if the course of history has stalled. Same genocide, same proxy wars, same CIA/Empire destabilization of the rest of the world, same corporations dictating … Continue reading →

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Our Conditioned Response to Collapse

Posted on March 12, 2024 by Dave Pollard

Over the past few years, I’ve made some fairly strident statements about the current state of the world as I see it. They include: That our global civilization is now in the accelerating stage of inevitable, complete collapse that we … Continue reading →

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“The Next Right Thing”, Revisited

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Dave Pollard

For the first fifteen years or so of this blog, I always felt I had a kind of professional obligation, after imparting what I thought was useful knowledge, to proffer suggestions on what we should do as a result of … Continue reading →

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Why Do We Want to Know?

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Dave Pollard

This map, from Multipolarista, shows the US-centred Empire bloc of nations (in red) that subscribe to the US-invented Rules Based International Order. The countries in green do not recognize that order, and they continue to support de facto a UN-centred international … Continue reading →

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What Do You Want From Me?

Posted on March 1, 2024 by Dave Pollard

New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner Lyz Lenz cites Rebecca Solnit as having told her “Every story men love to tell is Pygmalion.” A trace hyperbolic, perhaps, but Lyz goes on to list some of the many novels and films … Continue reading →

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Separate

Posted on February 25, 2024 by Dave Pollard

This is #27 in a series of month-end reflections on the state of the world, and other things that come to mind, as I walk, hike, and explore in my local community. photo by Laitche at wikimedia, CC-BY-SA 4.0. Taken at Daisen … Continue reading →

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Wearable Homes, Revisited

Posted on February 23, 2024 by Dave Pollard

midjourney AI’s imagining of a wearable home; my own prompt One of my first posts, long-time reader Theresa recently reminded me, was about the idea of us collaboratively designing a ‘wearable home’, an outfit that would be useful to homeless … Continue reading →

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