Category Archives: Our Culture / Ourselves

The Lesser of Two Evils

Posted on September 19, 2024 by Dave Pollard

A quick note to email subscribers: A couple of readers reported that my September 15th Links of the Month post was sent to their spam folders, apparently because of the large number of links in the post. If that was … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: September 2024

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Dave Pollard

the explosion of “vaccine hesitancy” since the start of the pandemic, per poll tabulations by YLE I’ve added a fifth ‘regular’ section to the “Politics & Economics As Usual” category of my monthly links. I’ve called it “Industrial Disease and … Continue reading →

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How We’re Supposed to Live Now

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Dave Pollard

what Jim Kunstler calls “The Long Emergency” — a gradual multi-stage collapse over an extended period Nate Bear writes: I live in a dry, water-stressed patch of the planet. Not far from us villages have been under water rationing measures … Continue reading →

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The Marshmallow Myth

Posted on September 9, 2024 by Dave Pollard

photo by Alex SooJung-Kim Pang on Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Cory Doctorow recently wrote an article debunking the myth surrounding the so-called “marshmallow test”. In the test, young children are told that they can either eat a marshmallow placed in … Continue reading →

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The Whole World Isn’t Watching Anymore

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Dave Pollard

screen shot from a recent Guardian video of anti-war protesters outside the DNC convention in Chicago this week More than half a century go, I was one of millions of protesters and demonstrators against the ghastly and criminal war in … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: August 2024

Posted on August 14, 2024 by Dave Pollard

Cartoon by Chaz Hutton at Instachaaz Yes, this is normal. No, wait, I mean, this is normal. All perfectly understandable. Yes, that group is pure evil. And that group over there is obviously insane. We need to work on that, get … Continue reading →

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No One Knows How You Feel

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Dave Pollard

Those who have studied animals for a long time suggest that the emotional ‘landscape’ of non-human animals is different from that of humans. The ‘map’ above attempts to articulate what those differences are and how they might have arisen. It … Continue reading →

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Is The West’s Growing Oppression a Portent?

Posted on August 8, 2024 by Dave Pollard

Last February, historian and educator Tarik Cyril Amar wrote one of the most pessimistic articles I’ve ever read. The gist of it is what he calls The Gaza Method, defined as: The West’s evolving blueprint for controlling a poly-crisis world … Continue reading →

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Unhealthy Conditions

Posted on August 3, 2024 by Dave Pollard

The cognitive bias codex from wikipedia; if you want to print it out so it’s legible and useful, print the original over four letter-sized landscape pages and paste them together (my printout is taped, tellingly perhaps, over my rarely-used TV). … Continue reading →

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Politicians as Tabulae Rasae of Power

Posted on August 1, 2024 by Dave Pollard

Kamala Harris reimagined as Lara Croft, by CaseyColton on DeviantArt; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 John Locke argued way back in the 17th century that humans are born “blank slates” — tabulae rasae in Latin — such that everything we come to … Continue reading →

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