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Happiness is Just Chemistry, and Its Absence
Happiness is Just Chemistry, and Its Absence (like everything on my blog, my graphics are covered by Creative Commons licence) What is it about us that we never seem to be happy, at least for long? What does it even mean to be happy? There have been endless studies suggesting that, a year after winning a major lottery, people […]
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds The oppressed rise to their feet. Police sink to their knees. Silence is violence. And violence is speech. From sea to glittering sea, from one continent to the next… protests yet rage. An injustice somewhere on a Minneapolis street evidently threatens justice everywhere. It certainly threatens the peace […]
On Finding Our Authentic Selves: or, the True and the False in the Age of Rousseau
On Finding Our Authentic Selves: or, the True and the False in the Age of Rousseau Being Part 3 of: Why Liberals Should be Conservative: Climate Change, Excellence, and the Practice of Happiness It may be urged that every individual man carries, within himself, at least in his adaptation and destination, a purely ideal man. […]
10-Minute Neighborhoods: The Low-Tech Solution to Almost* Everything
10-Minute Neighborhoods: The Low-Tech Solution to Almost* Everything What if it were possible to make headway on all these issues with simple changes to our neighborhoods? What if we could cut our medical costs in half? What if we could give the average American an added five years of healthy life? What if we could […]
The good life or the ballot? Both you say? I say the good life first, the ballot second.
The good life or the ballot? Both you say? I say the good life first, the ballot second. We have reached a pivotal moment. I think we can be certain that governments and other powers, such as corporations and their promotional arms, such as the BBC, are set on destruction. The powers have made no […]
Volatility on Steroids
Volatility on Steroids Salvador Dalí White calm 1936It’s been a while since we last heard from longtime friend of the Automatic Earth Dr. Nelson Lebo III, New Englander living in Wanganui, New Zealand. Nelson has written a fine collection of articles on this site through the years. Of course I thought, when I first saw […]
A Brief Visit to the End of the World
A Brief Visit to the End of the World People mostly want the same thing, and many of us already have it, but we don’t really notice it. I have no way of confirming this, but I bet that if you could interview people across different centuries and cultures, asking them what they wanted most, […]
Ten Wonderful Things I’m Grateful For (Irony Alert)
Ten Wonderful Things I’m Grateful For (Irony Alert) Being grateful boosts your happiness. Ten wonderful things I’m grateful for. Since every volume on the nearly endless shelf of pop psychology self-help books recommends working up some gratitude as the key to happiness, I’ve conjured up a list of what I’m grateful for. (Please turn your irony […]
I WILL NOT HAVE A DEPRESSING DEPRESSION
I WILL NOT HAVE A DEPRESSING DEPRESSION With the world careening towards great change, challenges and chaos, there is no shortage of links and lists to help us toughen up and get prepared to stay healthy, alert and nimble. But at the end of the day it is our own ‘self’, our mind we are […]
Reframing Progress | Post Growth Institute
Reframing Progress | Post Growth Institute. “…Progress is one of the most powerful notions in the modern world” writes John Dryzek inThe Politics of the Earth. I’m inclined to agree with him. Progress acts as a kind of meta-narrative, an incredibly potent and pervasive trope that is woven through stories ancient and contemporary, and forms […]
Buying Less Stuff Can Actually Make You More Happy | Carl Duivenvoorden
Buying Less Stuff Can Actually Make You More Happy | Carl Duivenvoorden. Tax time is never pretty, and for me last year was uglier than usual. By the measures of economics and Revenue Canada, I didn’t have a great 2013. But by the measures of sustainability and fulfillment, I had an awesome 2013. How could that be? […]
