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Not Knowing
Not Knowing The verbs we use to confirm or refute our acceptance of the beliefs and worldviews of those we know, comprise a sort of code, like a hidden handshake, or a shaken fist. We are asked whether we condone or condemn a certain behaviour, but the meaning of condone (other than as a rarely-used synonym of gift) […]
How Do We Teach the Critical Skills Needed to Face Collapse?
How Do We Teach the Critical Skills Needed to Face Collapse? So civilization, at least as we know it, is going to collapse — political, economic, social, educational, health, transportation, technological systems all will fail, a bit a first, and then more and more. We have no idea when it will be complete — could […]
Everything is Illuminated: The New Middle Ages
Everything is Illuminated: The New Middle Ages The Enlightened Middle Ages: Prepare for a New Way of Running Society The concept of “back to the Middle Ages” is becoming more and more widespread. Indeed, we must begin to think seriously not so much about a “return” to the Middle Ages but a “New Middle Ages” that […]
Facebook just suspended Natural News for 7 days for posting this rather ho-hum fluoride infographic
Facebook just suspended Natural News for 7 days for posting this rather ho-hum fluoride infographic (Natural News) The insanity of the tech giants’ censorship continues to expand by the day. With Twitter having permanently banned the Health Ranger account several weeks ago (@HealthRanger) after I criticized Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for his involvement in a […]
Industrial Forest Science: Industry’s Bitch
Industrial Forest Science: Industry’s Bitch Photo Source Gunvor Røkke | CC BY 2.0 “As soon as you are a scientist … you take a political side [because] you must necessarily choose to ask only certain questions. Many scientists … produce risk assessment for forest management [which] asks ‘how much can we cut, graze, salvage, spray, […]
Economic Thought in Ancient Greece
ECONOMIC THOUGHT IN ANCIENT GREECE The intellectual odyssey that laid the foundations for Western civilization began in classical Greece. Unfortunately, Greek thinkers failed in their attempt to grasp the essential principles of the spontaneous market order and of the dynamic process of social cooperation which surrounded them. While we must acknowledge the important Greek contributions […]
3 Stoic Lessons That Can Help Heal Our Toxic Political Culture
Statue of philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius 3 Stoic Lessons That Can Help Heal Our Toxic Political Culture Back in the days of Ancient Rome and Greece, the founding fathers of the stoic school of philosophy taught the importance of rationalism. Emotional. Tribal. Irrational. These are just three adjectives which could be applied to the political discourse […]
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 […]
Before You Tell Me What You “Know,” Tell Me Your Sources
Before You Tell Me What You “Know,” Tell Me Your Sources We can no longer trust data and conclusions being published as impartial by institutions that were once trustworthy. When someone says they “know” what’s happening on the ground in Syria, how can we assess the validity of their claim to knowledge, i.e. their claim to […]
Four Pillars for a Better Future: Knowledge, Consciousness, Innovation, Local Action – Part 1
Four Pillars for a Better Future: Knowledge, Consciousness, Innovation, Local Action – Part 1 For many years now, my message has been that tweaking around the edges of a systemically corrupt and discredited economic and political system is not good enough. Rather, what we need is a full scale, species-wide paradigm shift in the way […]
A Religion Called Economy
A Religion Called Economy The idea that religions are giving way to a more advanced human level of existence is part of common knowledge. Science and technology are emancipating humankind from mythical and religious discourses under the effect of the belief that only rationality should guide us. Reason has replaced the old God. Nietzsche, more […]
The Importance Of Knowing
The Importance Of Knowing Without insight, action is useless At Peak Prosperity, we strive to help people advance in three key areas: Knowing, Doing and Being. Doing and Being are the resilience-building steps we recommend. Helping folks develop their own personal action plans in these areas is the main focus of the seminars we run. […]
Cycle of Knowledge
Cycle of Knowledge QUESTION: Hello, I am a French Astrophysicist and I end up watching with great interest a TV story about Martin Armstrong. As a scientist I am really curious and keen to build new connection between our way of describing the Universe and the bias introduced by our own vision and history. Hence I […]
The World as Will
The World as Will It’s impressively easy to misunderstand the point made in last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report. To say that the world we experience is made up of representations of reality, constructed in our minds by taking the trickle of data we get from the senses and fitting those into patterns that […]
