Continued from Uprooting Civilization (Part 1) “There were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane” Francis Ford Coppola The Non-Evolutionary Perspective We now know, perhaps with some relief, that evolution was not a key factor in creating a form of humanity […]
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I have a great fear. It has been with me for years now, haunting the background to my thoughts. This fear surmounts climate change, deforestation, peak oil, global pandemic, soil depletion, indeed any worry that any reasonable person might keep at the very top of their worry-tree. It surmounts, but also encompasses these things, and […]
NOTE: This essay was the inspiration for the book Underminers. Introduction It takes guts to do something that could change things forever. I’m not the obvious candidate to be a hero, that’s a fact; I have children and a wife, and an extended family that mean the world to me. Heroes, for the most part, […]
I am about to make you feel uncomfortable. Sorry, but there’s no way of avoiding it if I’m going to tell this story as it should be told. You are a human being; a member of the species Homo sapiens sapiens, although the second “sapiens” was only put there because we like to feel we […]
If someone doesn’t want to believe something then what can you do to change their mind? Trust me, it’s more difficult than you think: it isn’t just the simple case of someone not believing something, the key word is “want” – if they don’t want to believe then there is almost nothing you can do […]
The future is everything we will ever know, and everything we have never known. Some people deny its existence: one group of people are the Pirahã of Amazonia, who have created for themselves a temporal bubble that reflects their highly sustainable, hunter-gatherer lives – the future is irrelevant because life is what is happening now, […]
Civilization or civilisation n. an advanced stage or system of human social development (Concise Oxford English Dictionary) Something BETTER than civilization is awaiting us. (Daniel Quinn, Beyond Civilization) How is that possible? One must be wrong, and it must be the second one because we know that civilization is all; we know that to be […]
When the signal fails during the advertisement break, who will be screaming: the children in the middle of getting their fix of consumer messages; the shoppers finding out what they can buy on their next mall run; the drivers being tempted by vehicles with more power, more safety and more sexiness; the television sales executives […]
Have you ever walked along the street and found that you are purposefully ignoring something because you think your mind is playing tricks with you? You know the kind of thing, the cloud in the shape of a crocodile that changes into something new while you are looking away, or a person with two heads, […]
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