The assertion in the meme here is true, but it raises an importation question: how well equipped is our species to deal with events that were unthinkable just 10 years ago? I’m referring to things like massive disinformation campaigns and …
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There is no doubt that people who disconnect from the news cycle have happier and less stressful lives. And today’s bad news isn’t about car accidents and house fires; it’s about global pandemics, environmental collapse, and our trajectory towards world …
A reader sent me the meme here. Apparently he thinks that ignoring our terrible past and our completely unacceptable present will produce a fabulous future, free of racism. Are there any other problems that evaporate by ignoring them? Tooth decay? …
This remark by U.S. patriot Thomas Paine, arguably the greatest force in bringing about the American Revolution, is even more important today than when it was made 250 years ago. That’s because “trouble” is far more terrifying now than it …
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My brilliant and sensitive friend Zan Dubin Scott writes: This is why we can’t have nice things: we live in a plastic-surgery world and buy too many new things all the time. They’re spraying this gorgeous fir GREEN! It’s not …
We live in a time of environmental collapse, in a world at the brink of nuclear war, where 1.5 billion of us can’t get a glass of clean water to drink, and the U.S. Constitution is being ripped into shreds. …
I have moments of pessimism where it’s hard for me to imagine a soft landing for human civilization given the direction it’s headed, vis-a-vis environmental collapse, the trend toward world fascism, and the threat of nuclear war. Wendell Berry sure …
Question: Since he took office, President Trump has made eliminating federal environmental regulations a top priority. Working in sync with help from Republicans in Congress, Trump has done everything possible to drive the success of the fossil fuel industry, stripping …
According to the Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of Carl Jung (pictured), born in 1875. He was the founder of analytic psychology. He noticed that myths and fairytales from all kinds of different cultures have certain similarities.
Hard to add much to this meme. (Larger version below.) Let’s make 2019 the year in world history in which humankind started thinking of itself as a community, and began acting accordingly.
