Category Archives: Collapse Watch

A Blameless Explanation of Why Everything is Falling Apart, for Schoolkids

Posted on April 16, 2024 by Dave Pollard

If I were invited to talk to a group of students (of any age) today, to explain why everything seems to be hopeless and falling apart, this is what I think I would tell them. When I was young and … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: April 2024

Posted on April 14, 2024 by Dave Pollard

cartoon by Michael Leunig When I look back at what the world seemed to be like, in my youth in the 1960s, it sometimes seems as if nothing has changed at all. We’re still fighting the same battles, supporting and … Continue reading →

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The Value of Therapy, When You Have No Free Will & No Self

Posted on April 4, 2024 by Dave Pollard

image by Layers on Pixabay (this is the same image Tim used to illustrate his post) I‘ve mentioned before that I battled severe depression and then debilitating anxiety for much of my life. Over the past decade or two, the … Continue reading →

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Always Wanting More

Posted on April 2, 2024 by Dave Pollard

Screen cap from a brilliant mashup of the top pop songs of 2008 by Dj Earworm that kinda touches on the subject of this post. In Robert Sapolsky’s 2017 book Behave (before he took on the subject of free will … Continue reading →

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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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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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