“Preserve your memories: They’re all that’s left you.” — Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends “The thing about time is that time isn’t really real.” — James Taylor, Secret O’ Life “How come I miss what I never knew?” — James Taylor, Baby Boom Baby “We seem to find meaning in what’s never happened. Our self-portraits use…
Cartoon from the Calvin & Hobbes Treasury As I’ve explained often on this blog, I believe our behaviour is completely conditioned by our biology and our culture, subject to the circumstances of the moment. An unfortunate consequence of that fact is that our beliefs and behaviours can be cynically conditioned by others for their own…
image by AI, of course; my own prompt Climate change may be a mechanism through which the planet eases its human burden…[or] new patterns of disease could trim the human population…War could have a major impact…weapons of mass destruction — notably biological and (soon) genetic weapons, more fearsome than before…It is not the number of…
image by AI; my own prompt In a time of growing chaos, precarity, scarcity, anger, obscene inequality, economic and ecological decline, and untold war-mongering, fear-mongering and suffering, when we’re fed a firehose diet of context-free soundbites, incompetent ‘leader’ hysterics and histrionics, and unsupported, outraged opinion masquerading as journalism, it’s probably not surprising that a…
Now that the collapse of our political, economic, social and ecological systems is accelerating, the signs of this collapse, including scapegoating, corruption, and social disorder are becoming more obvious. This is the sixteenth of a series of articles on some of these signposts. Blinken/Biden testimony — anti-genocide protesters, 2023; video from CBC Humans, it is said,…
forms of activism, adapted from the book Deep Green Resistance The latest impassioned article from Patrick Lawrence, entitled We Must Learn to Disobey, asserts: The fate of democracy, whether it endures or disappears, is decided in the minds and hearts of its citizens before it is decided in legislatures, in elections, in courts, or in…
This is #53 in a series of month-end reflections on the state of the world, and other things that come to mind, as I walk, hike, and explore in my local community. My neighbourhood: Lafarge Lake with its running track and sports fields far right-centre, with Pinecone Burke Provincial Park above it, and the Pacific Coast…
Three current events are on a collision course, and the result of that collision is likely to be a global economic collapse: The global debt crisis, with trillions of dollars of debt coming due, most of it in $US, at a time lenders are neither able nor willing to renew the loans, at least not…
No, the title of this post isn’t misspelt. The post is about how this ‘me’, this brain’s construct that evolved to try to make sense of the world, has seemingly come to terms with itself. That’s not to imply ‘I’ actually had a role in this, or that there’s some advice or prescription in this…
image by Layers on Pixabay Last year I wrote about how chronic precarity seems to affect us mentally, and concluded: Now, thanks largely to our own unintended blunders, 8.1 billion of us are seemingly both at the mercy of chance and at the mercy of others with whom we must share limited and diminishing resources….
earthset from the moon, from the Artemis II crew, via NASA There should be a name for the paradox in which a large group of individuals, each biophilic by nature, each doing their best under the circumstances, each quietly knowing the consequences of runaway ecological collapse, the exhaustion of cheap energy, endless wars, and relentlessly…
