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Over the years, I have developed a number of automatic text substitutions for phrases/platitudes I hear people utter. The filter works so that what I hear is converted into my internal version before processing further.
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Ideas for Living through the Great Unraveling
This year Post Carbon Institute has leaned into the “Great Unraveling” as a label for framing what’s happening in modern society and the natural world. In short, the Great Unraveling represents humanity’s comeuppance from overshoot, a time when debts are coming due and the promise of everlasting growth is fading.
Critical Thinking: Vital For Creating Sustainable And Democratic Societies
I believe that all of us, from those involved in planning an ecological transition to everyday people who will decide whether it moves forward or not, must cultivate our ability to think critically. And not just as a tool we use sometimes, but as a core part of our identity.
A Story of Mice (and Men)
Modernity is not time-tested, evolution-approved. It will fail. The question becomes: how do we respond to the failure?
Cultural Obsolescence & Ontological Revolution (Part 3)
Our entire cultural pattern of making sense of things is rooted in the sense of our being separate from one another, isolated and alone.
I believe we’re going to have to address the very root of the metacrisis where it emerges from the ground of its pseudo-being.
Holding the Fire: Episode 12. The End of the World with Dilafruz Khonikboyeva
Following another summer of record heat waves, droughts, floods, and wildfires across vast swaths of the planet, the injuries done to the planet by the Industrial Growth Society have never been so conclusive. As I grapple with collapse, I wanted to speak with Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, an Indigenous Pamiri from Tajikistan, who has lived through it and come out the other side.
Cultural Obsolescence & Ontological Revolution: bringing philosophy into the 21st century
We can barely even begin to imagine an amodern / postmodern / metamodern relational culture. But imagining it we must.
Self-driving cars are driving right into their own grave
Autonomous vehicles as currently deployed face a conceptual flaw that can’t be overcome
Direct democracy and the need for physical space
The project of direct democracy, being a socio-political system that is incompatible with the Nation-State-Capital complex, implies radical change to people’s relations to physical space.
Where should we live?
Political Will will not feed us. Nor will he make it possible to sustain the systems that rely on extravagant use — and waste — of resources. To most of the world, this is obvious.
Wasp Wisdom
One way to measure the change I’ve undergone in the last several years is via wasps. That’s right: wasps.
It’s as if I woke up one morning realizing that I grew up in a society of human supremacists, that I was one too, and that I no longer want to live that way.
Climate Politics: The view from Washington December 11, 2023
Legislation is not enacted in a vacuum. Successful advocacy strategies begin with understanding the political context in which proposed climate-related policies are to be debated and acted upon.
