This is the third of a series of articles — opinionated, fanciful writings, speculations — about The World After Collapse. It draws on what I’ve learned about pre-civilization humans and other large-brained creatures, and speculates on how, after civilization’s fall is complete — probably centuries from now — the remnants of the human species might be…
I’m still thinking this through, but it seems to me that the old left/right 2×2 (social vs economic axes) model is now outdated, and needs to be replaced by something more like this (some early thoughts below*) Like many western “democracies” and their imitators, Canada suffers from the use of the “first past the post”…
image by AI; not my prompt Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children, Hidden excitedly, containing laughter. Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. — TS Eliot, Burnt Norton, Four Quartets Science journals often speculate on why art, in all its forms, seems a uniquely…
A not-atypical example of bad management: An incompetent ‘manager’ issuing impossible instructions and then shifting the blame to someone/something else when they go wrong; image by AI, my own prompt Despite more than 40 years in business, working with organizations of all sizes, I still cannot fathom why we seem to absolutely revere people in…
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 fifteenth of a series of articles on some of these signposts. image by AI, my own prompt Tyson Yunkaporta, the Australian professor of Indigenous…
Yes, it’s another post in which I blather about how much fun I’ve had and how much I’ve learned about amateur music creation, one of my favourite hobbies, from playing with AI music tools. Before yelling at me, please see my regular AI caveat at the bottom of this post. image by AI; my prompt,…
This is #52 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. well I’m a stranger here on this place called Earth and I was sent down here to discover the worth of your little blue planet…
one of the pattern cards from the Group Works facilitation deck Last evening I attended a PechaKucha style event in Port Moody, a community a short walking distance from where I live. For those not familiar with PechaKucha-type events, it requires you to make your presentation precisely 20 slides long, with each slide lasting precisely…
number of songs added to my music library, by year of release I‘ve been tracking developments in popular music for over 60 years. And although my ‘ratings’ are necessarily subjective, they seem largely consistent with the assessments of many others who have been following pop music culture for decades. Most musicologists seem to acknowledge the…
Over the past 23 years, this blog has presented a lot of hypotheses about how things are and how they got this way. I’ve hypothesized about how we got into the current mess of chaos and collapse: I’ve hypothesized about how this collapse might play out: and about what the signs of this collapse might be:…
from the memebrary; details on this dangerous mental defect here On the streets of Minneapolis they’re back harassing immigrants A fake badge and a violent wish to tread She was good, a peaceful activist, a parked car stopped in traffic When a madman in a ski mask shot her dead A shocking lack of empathy —…
