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The degrowth propaganda squad
The degrowth propaganda squad Degrowth. Image: Klimacamp Wien What degrowth thinkers can learn from free market economist Friedrich Hayek and the father of public relations, Edward Bernays. ‘There is no alternative.’ The infamous slogan used by Margaret Thatcher would often be flung in your face, explicitly or implicitly, whenever you tried, in recent decades, to resist […]
33 Problems With Media In One Chart
33 Problems With Media In One Chart One of the hallmarks of democratic society is a healthy, free-flowing media ecosystem. In times past, that media ecosystem would include various mass media outlets, from newspapers to cable TV networks. Today, the internet and social media platforms have greatly expanded the scope and reach of communication within […]
The Difference Between a Forecast and a Guess
The Difference Between a Forecast and a Guess Every forecast or guess has one refreshing quality: one will be right and the rest will be wrong. What’s the difference between a forecast and a guess? On one level, the answer is “none”: the future is unknown and even the most informed forecast is still a guess. The evidence for […]
Waiting for the end of the world – Sugar and the Information Paradox.
Waiting for the end of the world – Sugar and the Information Paradox. Amelia the Amoeba is the protagonist of a chapter of my book ” Before the Collapse ” (Springer 2019). She is a Naegleria Fowleri who has the rather nasty habit of devouring human brains but, apart from this, she kindly lent herself to be […]
On Covid-19 And Authoritarian Abuses
On Covid-19 And Authoritarian Abuses Over the last few months there’s been a clique of indie media who’ve been urging their respective followings to bully and cajole other indie media into focusing on Covid-19, lockdowns, mask laws and Covid-related authoritarian agendas in their coverage of world events. I personally find the idea of fighting with […]
You are What you Read: How to Manage your Personal Echo Chamber
You are What you Read: How to Manage your Personal Echo Chamber Mr. Trump has often being accused of “lying” in his many speeches and tweets. For sure, much of what he says can be said to be “contrary to fact.” But is the president really lying or is he simply stating what he thinks […]
What The Hell Is Going On Here, Anyway?
What The Hell Is Going On Here, Anyway? Over the course of my young career here I’ve amassed a very eclectic group of readers from all across the political spectrum, which I quite enjoy. Sometimes I read the comments sections just to watch what happens when you bring people together from wildly different worldviews who wouldn’t […]
Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the “Integrity Initiative”
Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the “Integrity Initiative” Is there such a plane of blissful, balanced information, deliberated and debated upon? No. Governments mangle; corporations distort. Interest groups tinker. Wars must be sold; deception must be perpetrated. Inconsistencies must be removed. There will be success, measured in small doses; failure, dispatched in grand […]
The Perils of Banning “Fake News”
The Perils of Banning “Fake News” When the printing press was invented in the mid-1400s, Europe faced radical and unprecedented changes. Ultimately revolutionizing the circulation of information, the printing press dislodged the monopoly of information and ideas. As Gutenberg reformed the printing system around 1440, the technology quickly expanded. According to some accounts, there were […]
Freedom Where Did You Go?
Freedom Where Did You Go? My Generation is the last one to have known privacy and to have lived out most of our lives in freedom. I remember when driving licenses did not have photos and most certainly not fingerprints. A driving license was issued on proof of birth date alone. Prior to the appearance […]
SELCO: “The media manipulated people, bombarding us with fear and hate” during the Balkan Wars. Sound familiar?
SELCO: “The media manipulated people, bombarding us with fear and hate” during the Balkan Wars. Sound familiar? Editor’s note: A point I’ve been harping on a lot lately is how we in the United States have been divided by politics and the media lately. Many have become callous and lost their humanity. People havebegged for […]
The ‘fake news’ story is fake news
The ‘fake news’ story is fake news Judy Woodruff of PBS News Hour Almost every day on public radio or public television, I hear reports about how fake news is undermining our democracy. These high-minded reporters and anchors seem truly to believe that a feverish menace is overwhelming the minds of once-sensible people. This […]
Gathering Existing Information for Use After TEOTWAWKI
Gathering Existing Information for Use After TEOTWAWKI This article is about how to gather existing knowledge and information for use after TEOTWAWKI. Basically, search Wikipedia.org for the basic articles on the six categories listed below, download the PDF of each related page, and check the footnotes for industry standard reference books that can be purchased […]
Information overload, sustainability, and the emerging organization
Information overload, sustainability, and the emerging organization Nafeez Ahmed, an exceptional journalist who writes at the intersection of resources and society, understands the complexity of the ecological predicament we humans face. In a piece he wrote last year, Ahmed asserted that our current arrangements are approaching a convulsive crisis point. One reason for this is […]
