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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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Tous Ensemble!


At Stade de France, 85,000 fans sing Mylène Farmer’s famous (outside the anglophone world) protest song about youth alienation, Désenchantée (disenchanted: “nothing makes sense anymore, nothing works properly, it’s total chaos”) tous ensemble — all together. At 06:30 of the ...

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What I’ve Learned About Writing Music From AI

I have a love-hate relationship with AI. Please see my explanation of that at the end of this article.

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Drops in the River

This is #48 in a series of month-end reflections on the state of the world, and other things that come to mind, as I walk and hike in my local community. 

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Narratives Are the Tools By Which We Misunderstand The World

We make sense of this world by inventing stories about what our senses tell us is happening. If enough people ‘agree’ on the veracity of these stories, they then become myths (= “popular” stories), and hence very hard not to believe.

These stories, however, have no value in affecting what we actually do, as I’ve ex...

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Why We Do The Things We Do

I have in past argued that our beliefs and worldviews are merely after-the-fact rationalizations of what we want to believe happened, and of what we want to believe were the reasons for these events happening. I keep insisting that our behaviours — what we actually say and do — are conditioned solely by the behaviours of other...

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