Category Archives: Preparing for Civilization’s End

The End of Ideas

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Dave Pollard

I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am… I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: September 2020

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Oh won’t you come with me, where the Wood River flows? We’ll watch it meander slowly, as the sky turns from red to dark. And as that sun goes down, we’ll throw our arms around each other and tell the … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: August 2020

Posted on August 8, 2020 by Dave Pollard

Turn away from your animal kind, Try to leave your body just to live in your mind. Leave your cold cruel mother earth behind, Gaia. As if you were your own creation, As if you were the chosen nation. And … Continue reading →

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The Wonderful, Messy Process of Self-Organization

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Dave Pollard

pedestal left after statue of slave trader was removed in Bristol, UK; image from NPR taken by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP We humans seem to like order, and there are several ways of achieving it. We are inclined to prefer simpler, easier-to-understand … Continue reading →

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Collapse Happens Slowly… and Then Very Suddenly

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Dave Pollard

David Ehrenfeld, in Beginning Again (1994), describes our civilization as a ragged flywheel, over-built, patched and rusty, spinning faster and faster and beginning to rattle and moan as it comes apart: There goes a chunk — the sick and aged along with … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: July 2020

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Dave Pollard

cartoon by the late Dana Fradon, in The New Yorker, way back in 1976 One of the signs of social collapse is, ironically, the simultaneous emergence of autocratic demagogues and a soaring distrust of perceived ‘leaders’ of all kinds — … Continue reading →

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There Is No Trade-Off

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Dave Pollard

The mainstream and social media, and most politicians and corporations, keep telling us that as long as CoVid-19 is with us we have to find a delicate balance between looking after our collective health (ie saving lives) and salvaging the … Continue reading →

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Freedom Fighters

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Dave Pollard

[This article is an attempt to convey an appreciation and support for the Black Lives Matter movement and other struggles against systemic racism and oppression, within the context of the ongoing global struggle for freedom, justice and sanity we all … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: June 2020

Posted on June 19, 2020 by Dave Pollard

screenshot of top of a recent CBC headlines page A comment on free access to information: Over the past three months, more and more newspapers and other media sources have put paywalls, ad-blockers, compulsory ‘registrations’, article limits and other restrictions … Continue reading →

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Some More Wild Guesses on CoVid-19

Posted on May 23, 2020 by Dave Pollard

There has been a lot of second guessing recently about the optimal timing for shutting down and reopening the “non-essential” components of our economy in order to minimize death from CoVid-19 without causing economic hardship disproportionate to the direct suffering … Continue reading →

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