TaIkin’ Bout a Revolution
Before we can spark a revolution we’re going to have to have a conversation about revolution, the dangerous, explosive word! And ours explodes with flowers and hugs!
Society featured
Elites, political disintegration, and ‘cliodynamics’
In his recent book End Times, Peter Turchin tries to lay out his story about social, political, and economic change for a popular audience.
Autonomous chaos: Self-driving vehicles block emergency services
Autonomous vehicles are touted as safer than vehicles driven by humans. Turns out there are some dangerous glitches.
Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
Recent archaeology emerging from ancient Mesoamerica is flipping the script of public understanding about the people and institutions that inhabited this world: the evidence tells us that cooperative and pluralistic government was at least as common as and more resilient than despotic states.
Building Thriving Communities: Making a Shift toward Relational and Restorative Care
For almost 50 years, Beth Mount has worked towards the ideal that every person with a disability can be a valued member of community life, promoting the positive futures and potentials of people with disabilities throughout the world who are together working to create more inclusive communities.
Coming to Our Animal Senses: A Conversation with David Abram
Given the ubiquitous nature of this animistic intuition among the diverse indigenous peoples of this planet – given its commonality among so many exceedingly diverse and divergent cultures – it would seem that this is our birthright as humans.
Why we choose narcissists as leaders
Both Trump and Johnson are notorious narcissists, and I am wondering what it is about our current politics that means that the qualities of narcissism are so rewarded by the electorate.
Whitman’s Redwoods
i bow
to James Stephens who once did chant
the first and last duty of humankind:
to dance.
To Counter AI Risk, We Must Develop an Integrated Intelligence
The recent explosion in the stunning power of artificial intelligence is likely to transform virtually every domain of human life in the near future, with effects that no-one can yet predict.
Solstice thoughts: night and day
It is my hope that we do not have many more summer solstices that pass largely unheralded. It is my belief that this aberrant time will, indeed, pass and there will be holy days again.
Crazy Town: Episode 78. The Surest Paths to a Hard Collapse: The Delusional Doctrines of the Phalse Prophethood (Season Wrap-up)
Asher, Rob, and Jason explore the lessons and dangers of the brotherhood of Phalse Prophets and consider better ways to achieve a sustainable and equitable society.
We Are Living Through a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Evolution
There’s every indication that a better understanding of ourselves strengthens humanity as a whole and makes connection and cooperation more possible.
