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The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025
The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. A Key Longevity Antioxidant Is Fading From Our Food Supply The Limits of Business-as-Usual in AEO 2025 | Art Berman Complexity, Collapse, and the Lessons of Late Antiquity More Than 150 Nobel-Prize Winning Scientists […]
Open the Overton Window
Open the Overton Window You may have heard of the “Overton window.” The concept of the Overton window caught on in professional culture, particularly those seeking to nudge public opinion, because it taps into a certain sense that we all know is there. There are things you can say and things you cannot say, not […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XX–Climate Emergency Action Plan: Electrification and Magical Thinking
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XX June 9, 2021 Pompeii, Italy (1993) Photo by author Climate Emergency Action Plan: Electrification and Magical Thinking Today’s contemplation is once again generated by way of an article from the online media site The Tyee. It’s topic is the city of Vancouver’s (British Columbia, Canada) attempts to require ‘electrification’ of all […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVII–‘Renewables’ and the Overton Window That Ignores Biophysical Realities
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVII June 1, 2021 Teotihuacan, Mexico (1986) Photo by author ‘Renewables’ and the Overton Window That Ignores Biophysical Realities ‘Renewables’. They will save us! This is one of the most common beliefs being bandied about by the ruling class and especially those that stand to profit from a shift to them in […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIII–Electrify Everything: Neither ‘Green’ Nor ‘Sustainable’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIII Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Electrify Everything: Neither ‘Green’ Nor ‘Sustainable’ Electrifying everything has become a rallying cry for many people concerned with the ecological/environmental impact of humanity. But do such attempts to mitigate/solve such problems/dilemmas actually do what they claim to? I would argue no. They are simply […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XX
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XX Pompeii, Italy (1993) Photo by author Today’s contemplation is once again generated by way of an article from the online media site The Tyee. It’s topic is the city of Vancouver’s (British Columbia, Canada) attempts to require ‘electrification’ of all new buildings as part of their Climate Emergency Action Plan and the […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVII Teotihuacan, Mexico (1986) Photo by author ‘Renewables’. They will save us! This is one of the most common beliefs being bandied about by the ruling class and especially those that stand to profit from a shift to them in an attempt to power our complex society. I would argue, however, […]
Shattering the Overton Window
Shattering the Overton Window Aim your rocks at glass houses. The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.[1] It is also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after Joseph P. Overton, who stated that an idea’s political viability depends mainly on whether […]
The Incredible Shrinking Overton Window
The Incredible Shrinking Overton Window “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the […]
We’re Good People, Really We Are!
We’re Good People, Really We Are! The disgrace of America’s putative intellectual class is nearly complete as it shoves the polity further into dysfunction and toward collapse. These are the people Nassim Taleb refers to as “intellectuals-yet-idiots.” Big questions loom over this dynamic: How did the thinking class of America sink into this slough of […]
