The Creation of Society’s Shared Hallucinations
Our social reality is a combined construct of what we directly observe, what others tell us directly, and the parallel realities created by the media.
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The Crocodiles of Reality
I’ve suggested in several previous posts that the peak oil debate may be approaching a turning point—one of those shifts in the collective conversation in which topics that have been shut out for years or decades finally succeed in crashing the party, and other topics that have gotten more than their quota of attention during that time get put out to pasture or sent to the glue factory.
LA Time Banks Create Small Business Loan Fund
The ASECO Community Revolving Loan Fund (CRLF) is the first ever small business micro-loan program funded by, managed, and benefiting a time bank.
By the way, your home is on fire
The moral of this story: people in power and bureaucrats seem exceptionally obtuse when it comes to recognizing that the world has changed and the old rules no longer apply.
Becoming Home
Born from the thought that maybe, just maybe, we could one day build a house debt free, we had long ago begun a conversation of outside-the-box ideas about what a stepping stone dwelling to that debt free house might be – Sailboat? Cabin? RV?
A Walk in the Future
If human history is a novel, then we’ve reached the climax, the final turning point in which the protagonists (us) either change or die.
In Defence of Hypocrisy
We live in a society where it is impossible to live a functional lifestyle and not consume products made from petro-chemicals every single day…
The Steampunk Future Revisited
While steampunk isn’t anything like as obscure as The Glass Bead Game, it’s not exactly a massive cultural presence, either, and it interests me that a month after the post appeared, it’s still getting read and discussed.
The Good Kind of Protesters–and the Bad Kind
It’s fair to say that the complex anti-government protest movements in both Venezuela and Ukraine were boiled down by US corporate media to send a clear message to their domestic audience: These are the good guys.
The Metropolitan Revolution: Cities on the Rise out of Necessity
In the face of “federal gridlock, economic stagnation and fiscal turmoil,” cities and metropolitan areas across the country are tackling the pressing problems that Washington won’t, says Jennifer Bradley, a fellow at the Brookings Institute Metropolitan Policy Program.
Historic climate action shows millennials ready to fight for their future
When nearly 400 millennials committed civil disobedience on Sunday in front of the White House to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, they sent a clear message to President Obama: “Stop this pipeline or the people will.”
Edge-Dwelling: A Social Ecology For Our Time: Part 5: Shamans, Midwives, And Hospice Workers
Beyond the edge where what we know and don’t know meets lies the Unknown (with a capital U).
