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Denial

Text substitutions

January 2, 2024December 30, 2023 by Tom Murphy

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.

Categories Society, Society featured Tags Denial Leave a comment

Wisdom: Re-Tuning for a Sustainable Future

December 15, 2020September 24, 2015 by Peter Whybrow

In our social evolution as a species, biology and culture run on parallel tracks, but they do so at different speeds. Thus biology, quickly and disruptively, can be outpaced by cultural change.

Categories Society Tags Culture & Behavior, Denial, evolution Leave a comment

Endless Layers Of Delusion

December 15, 2020June 3, 2014 by Roger Boyd

The layers of delusion in which members of society have wrapped themselves, so as to not have to face up to the hard choices that face us, are seemingly endless.

Categories Society Tags climate change, Denial, peak oil, United Nations Leave a comment

The Schizophrenic Society

December 15, 2020January 10, 2014 by Roger Boyd

Lost in a make believe world while we destroy the real one.

Categories Society Tags Complex Societies, Denial, environmental threats, limits to growth, neoliberal ideology 1 Comment

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