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 —…
One of the hardest things I’ve had to explain in support of my relatively new belief that we have absolutely no free will — ie that all our behaviour is entirely determined by our biological and cultural conditioning given the circumstances of the moment — is that this conditioning determines not only our behaviour but…
My own chart of animal emotions, based on similar charts by others such as Jaak Panksepp and Karla McLaren; this chart is explained in more detail in this earlier article. I now think the collective name for the emotions in the left shaded rectangle might be hurt. We tend to think of ‘survival’ as being…
You have a problem with that? That’s how it’s designed — to make profits for AI developers and their customers. In part by telling you what you want to hear. Hank Green has a new, long video in which he summarizes all the things that scare him about AI: Dangerous and disruptive AI slop and…
I gave up on corporate-owned “social media” a few years ago, and have never regretted the decision for a moment. It was easier for me, though, because I’m a blogger. I have my blog on a self-hosted WordPress site. WordPress is an open-source nonprofit organization. While it has a management team, it is owned by…
Readers often ask me what the point is of writing about the accelerating collapse of our global civilization if I believe it’s inevitable and unstoppable. As a non-believer in free will, my answer is that this seems to be what I’ve been conditioned and am compelled to do these days. My role, it seems, is…
This is a work of fiction. image by ‘as above astro’ via Jae Mather It’s like… I’m watching a castle made of sand, slowly eroding from below as the unforgiving ocean tide laps around its base — The people at the bottom of the castle are dying and desperate, while those above carry on with…
This is #51 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. dog in play pose; by Thomas Zimmermann on wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0 DE Last week my neighbourhood ramble took me by a local off-leash ‘dog…
Another internal conversation with my self, spinning around in the infinite loop of ‘me’. I’m sitting in the corner of the café, looking at the wan reflection of this body in the window. I think I know what’s going on, inside this body and outside it. But it’s pretty obvious that I don’t. This brain…
