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The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking
The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking I want to believe in eternal economic growth. Given what humanity is facing with climate change and other consequences of our collective consumption, it must be awfully comforting to have faith in a cornucopian future where no one ever goes wanting. Especially if all we have to […]
Technology Detox: The Health Benefits of Unplugging & Unwinding
Technology Detox: The Health Benefits of Unplugging & Unwinding Recent studies have shown that 90% of Americans use digital devices for two or more hours each day and the average American spends more time a day on high-tech devices than they do sleeping: 8 hours and 21 minutes to be exact. If you’ve ever considered attempting a […]
Reflections 50 Years Past, 50 Years Future
Reflections 50 Years Past, 50 Years Future Ed. note: The following remarks were made at the event celebrating 50 years since the publications of the Whole Earth Catalog. Thank you to everyone involved with Whole Earth for the inspiring conversations you’ve sparked over the years, including the ones happening on this stage tonight. I feel […]
Australia Turning Really Authoritative? Is this How a Dark Age Begins?
Australia Turning Really Authoritative? Is this How a Dark Age Begins? The greed of governments in their pursuit of money is the single greatest threat to creating a Dark Age. With New Zealand imposing a $5,000 fine for just landing there and you refuse to hand over your pen and passwords to your phone for […]
Climate Crisis is Upon Us
Climate Crisis is Upon Us One of the more useful allusions hidden in plain sight in the recent IPCC / UN report on climate crisis is the distinction between the pre-industrial and industrial ages that defines the era of climate crisis. Industrial capitalism, a/k/a capitalism, is the cause of climate crisis. Plenty of pseudo-scientific rubbish […]
Our opposable thumb
Our opposable thumb “Stereoscopic vision, depth perception, certain emotions and other perceptions, and the ability to stretch our thumbs farther than most other species, the ability to build and destroy things, and many other traits individually or in combination separate us from other species, not necessarily all species though. Other animals with opposable thumbs include […]
How Globalists Plan To Use Technology And Poverty To Enslave The Masses
How Globalists Plan To Use Technology And Poverty To Enslave The Masses Tyranny is often seen as a sudden and inexplicable development in a society; the product of a singular despot that rockets to power for a limited window of time due to public fear or stupidity. This is one of the great lies of […]
Creating a Suspect Society: The Scary Side of the Technological Police State
Creating a Suspect Society: The Scary Side of the Technological Police State “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge […]
Driverless Cars and the Cult of Technology
Driverless Cars and the Cult of Technology We constantly hear that driverless cars are just around the corner. We’re told they will revolutionize transportation and enable us to continue using our car-based transport and land-use system. If they’re made by Tesla, they’ll be powered by magic, solar-powered, super efficient batteries and we’ll all be able […]
Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet: Reason Roundup
Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet: Reason Roundup Plus: Testing telemedicine abortion and 3D printed guns. Douglas Christian/ZUMA Press/Newscom All your base are belong to us. A leaked memo circulating among Senate Democrats contains a host of bonkers authoritarian proposals for regulating digital platforms, purportedly as a way to get […]
U.S. Tech Giants Are Too Big, Too Powerful and Now Are Running Into Serious Trouble
U.S. Tech Giants Are Too Big, Too Powerful and Now Are Running Into Serious Trouble Within Google, knowledge about Dragonfly has been restricted to just a few hundred members of the internet giant’s 88,000-strong workforce, said a source with knowledge of the project. The source spoke to The Intercept on condition of anonymity, as they […]
An Engineer, an Economist, and an Ecomodernist Walk Into a Bar and Order a Free Lunch . . .
An Engineer, an Economist, and an Ecomodernist Walk Into a Bar and Order a Free Lunch . . . Photo source NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | CC BY 2.0 Humanity’s and the Earth’s prospects have been dimming for the past year and a half. But they’ve been bleak for a long time; as little […]
Can Sophisticated Technology Prevent Severe Economic Slump?
CAN SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGY PREVENT SEVERE ECONOMIC SLUMP? Most economic commentators are likely to agree that in relation to the period prior to the Great Depression, the present world is many times more sophisticated in terms of advanced technological knowledge. It is then tempted to suggest that with the present advanced technology we are in a […]
Axiom of Uncertainty
Axiom of Uncertainty It’s simple. Given that there might well be an absolute nature/structure of the universe and our perhaps fundamentally limited cognitive position/abilities within it can we be certain that we can be sure about the true nature of anything? Can there be fundamental forces, matter, and material relationships of which we will never know? While unanswerable in principle, the mere possibility of […]
Ecology: The Keystone Science
Ecology: The Keystone Science Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters | CC BY 2.0 A missing piece from most critiques of modern capitalism revolves around the misunderstanding of ecology. To put it bluntly, there will be no squaring the circle of mass industrial civilization and an inhabitable Earth. There is no way for […]
