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If We Can No Longer Tell the Truth, We’ve Failed
If We Can No Longer Tell the Truth, We’ve Failed The Gulag Archipelago is not a distant memory; it lives on in every modern state, cloaked with modern-day technologies and the well-worn tools of suppression. The last thing addicts want to hear is the truth: the only thing more terrifying than the truth is the […]
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 […]
Feeling Isolated?
Shutterstock Feeling Isolated? If so, you’re not alone Does anyone else in your life share your concerns for the future? Is there someone you talk with regularly about the unsustainability of our current economic and ecological trajectories? Do you have friends and/or family members who support your efforts to develop a more resilient lifestyle? If […]
Big Brother = You
Big Brother = You Giorgione The Tempest 1508Happy belated new year. Belatedly. Thought I’d sit out a few days, since there wasn’t much news to be expected. And it did pan out that way, other than Trump bogarting the limelight; but then, that isn’t really news either. Anything he says or does triggers the expansive […]
How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracy
How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracy The sad truth is that Facebook and Google have behaved irresponsibly in the pursuit of massive profits. And this has come at a cost to our health ‘Substance cannot compete with sensation, which must be amplified constantly, lest consumers get distracted and move on.’ Photograph: Anadolu […]
The Need to Limit Energy Use
THE NEED TO LIMIT ENERGY USE ENERGY: AN ADDICTION OR A NECESSITY? Energy is arguably the most defining aspect of industrial civilization. For the first couple hundred thousand years of human existence, our ability to affect the world around us was limited by the amount of energy the human body can produce. It is estimated […]
Ideology as Addiction
Ideology as Addiction Solutions abound, but they aren’t one size fits all ideologies. It isn’t just coincidental that ideology shares so many dynamics with addiction. Though ideology is a faith-belief dynamic rather than a chemical process, both require constant reinforcement/renewal and both demand a painful withdrawal procedure of those who decide to free themselves of the […]
Central Banks Are Crack Dealers and Faith Healers
Central Banks Are Crack Dealers and Faith Healers The entire formerly rich world is addicted to debt, and it is not capable of shaking that addiction. Not until the whole facade that was built to hide this addiction must and will come crashing down along with the corpus itself. Central banks are a huge part […]
