The only antidote to election anxiety is training to confront Trump’s threat
No matter the outcome in November, we need training to transform despair into action and to build the kind of solidarity that offers protection.
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MM #5: Our Biological Inheritance
All our senses and capabilities are inherited. We would be nothing without our older brothers and sisters on this planet.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
It comes down to that… Why do bad things happen to good people? Be-cause… and mostly because we’ve got bad and good confused by our self-centered stories.
MM #4: Evolution
Evolution has no choice but to simultaneously work on the whole set of species and their inter-relationships. Evolution does not work on the squirrel by itself or the insect by itself with no interaction between them: it can’t work like that. Evolution always operates on the full ecological context. Have I said that already?
The power of transformative communities to build other possible futures
Through a shared vision, mutual support and collaborative endeavors, our networks can create a powerful force for transformation, emphasizing the importance of community-led solutions in addressing the pressing challenges of our time in a way that acknowledges and addresses global disparities and different cosmovisions.
‘Making Our Communities What They Need to Be’
There’s an old saying: “The rules are made by the people in the room.” That’s why we’ve got to get more of the working-class in those rooms to really start making our communities what they need to be.
How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action
Bluntly, storytelling is the best way—maybe the only way—to inform, persuade, and inspire people to act. It helps us assimilate facts, contextualize them, and understand and share their meaning.
MM #3: Early Life
I want to encourage you to try a little bit of awe for early, microbial life. Try some respect; try seeing yourselves from a position of humility, and extend admiration for the genius that we take for granted, but that is absolutely crucial to being who we are.
Lessons from Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson died 198 years ago on the 4th of July, but we really shouldn’t wait two more years to notice, and take to heart, an important argument in political/economic philosophy that Jefferson made in a letter to James Madison dated 6 September 1789.
MM #2: Cosmology
This is the second in the Metastatic Modernity video series of about 17 installments (see launch announcement), putting the meta-crisis in perspective as a cancerous episode afflicting humanity and the greater community of life on Earth. This episode provides a cosmological perspective on our insignificance.
Creative Resilience in a World-in-Crisis: It’s more than Doomerism! Part 2.
If nothing else, I hope these few indulgent personal reflections on communicative resilience and creative resilience will have encouraged you to find and/or express your own voice in this world-in-crisis, and in whatever way(s) you feel most compelled and/or comfortable to do so.
Nations of the Learned
When I describe the schools that barefoot rural children once attended, in the USA of 1900 or the Ireland of the 1950s, everyone assumes their education would be pathetic — the “three Rs,” … This belief … crumbles the instant one reads descriptions of schools from a century ago
