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The Psychological Pain of Inflation
The Psychological Pain of Inflation The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) tomorrow morning will report its Consumer Price data from October. The Producer Price Index (PPI) appears the following day. There will likely be no real surprise here: inflation will still be running hot around 3.7 percent, confirming what I and many have suspected. Inflation […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CII–That Uncertain Road, Part 1.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CII February 20, 2023 Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. That Uncertain Road, Part 1 “I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLVI–Peak Oil, Complexity, Psychology, Magical Thinking, and War
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLVI Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Peak Oil, Complexity, Psychology, Magical Thinking, and War Again, some sharing of my comments and others’ on a couple of recent FB Group posts. First, a post from the Peak Oil Group I am a member of where some great conversations happen. In this particular situation, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIII–Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 3
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIII October 6, 2023 Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 3 As ecologist Howard T. Odum argues in the quote above, human ‘progress’ has been the result of our species’ leveraging of available ‘power’[1]. Humans are not unique in this but for a […]
We Underappreciate How Different We Are
We Underappreciate How Different We Are Photo by Joshua Fuller on Unsplash After I started working for my current employer, I met a colleague with whom I simply could not work with. We disagreed on almost everything — not on a factual level, but rather on how we approach working with problems and identify solutions. I felt like […]
In Brief: Trading safety, An inflection point, The crisis of under-consumption, A reign of decline
In Brief: Trading safety, An inflection point, The crisis of under-consumption, A reign of decline Trading safety Within the inner sanctum of one of the world’s oldest and most esteemed universities, an ageing professor sits in a battered leather armchair. Oblivious to the day-to-day sensations within the room – the slow tick and tock of […]
Why We Ignore the Obvious: The Psychology of Willful Blindness
Why We Ignore the Obvious: The Psychology of Willful Blindness How to counter the gradual narrowing of our horizons. “Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don’t know,” pioneering investigative journalist Lincoln Steffens wrote in a beautiful 1926 letter of life-advice to his baby son. And yet the folly of the human […]
Deleted Government Report Celebrates How Public Loves to “Conform”
Deleted Government Report Celebrates How Public Loves to “Conform” Climate change technocrats plan on using same methods that convinced public to obey lockdown. Alex Segre via Getty Images A deleted government report exploring how to make the public alter its behavior to accept the new ‘green economy’ reveals how COVID-19 restrictions have created a population […]
The Drivers Of Empire Want To Rule As Greek Gods
The Drivers Of Empire Want To Rule As Greek Gods Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Power is the ability to control what happens. The more control you have, the more powerful you are. That’s why power is like crack for the ego. Egos are all about control; obtaining safety and security so […]
The Climate Crisis: Interview with Social Psychologist Kelly Fielding
The Climate Crisis: Interview with Social Psychologist Kelly Fielding Kelly Fielding is a social and environmental psychologist and Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research has included a focus on trying to understand climate change beliefs and identifying ways to address climate change skepticism and inaction. The […]
COVID and the Noble Lie
COVID and the Noble Lie “Unethical”… “dystopian”… “totalitarian”… These are the words of the British government’s primary scientific advisory bunch — the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour, by title. These scientific advisors presently droop their heads in shame. For these are the very words they employ to describe their own conduct. They concede: Last […]
Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales
Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales Advertisement from the mid-20th century I have often used this expression (the title) to describe many things people tend to think of as solutions for one thing or another that either are not solutions or are unrealistic at best in terms of actually solving something. For anyone just joining these […]
