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How to save the world's title: how to save the world | Dave Pollard's chronicle of civilization's collapse, creative works and essays on our culture. A trail of crumbs, runes and exclamations along my path in search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.

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This is the second of a series of articles — opinionated, fanciful writings, speculations — about The World After Collapse. It draws on what I’ve learned about pre-civilization humans and other large-brained creatures, and speculates on how, after civilizati...


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In January 1933, Hitler is appointed Chancellor despite only minority support in the election. A few months later, he becomes dictator and all opposition parties are banned. Image via Anne Frank House from Bundesarchiv, 146-1972-026-11/ photograph: R. Sennecke. Source: 


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The Ikigai Game

This is a work of fiction. Note that if you’re reading this in an e-newsletter, the table in this story might be hard to read. You can always read the copy on the blog.

“Uh oh. Cat’s up to something crazy again. OK, so what’s this — a map for solving all t...


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“GOT MINE!” — An AI depiction of corporatism and ‘private equity’ as vultures; my own prompt

Politicians’ current blathering about the “affordability crisis” is basically an attempt to re-characterize the accelerating global political and economic collapse as a ‘hiccup’ in the current system that merely requires some expert managerial and financial tweaking.

It...


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Now that the collapse of our political, economic, social and ecological systems is accelerating, the signs of this collapse, including scapegoating, corruption, and social disorder are becoming more obvious. This is the fourteenth of a series of articles on so...


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