How to save the world

Yes, this is a rant.

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Travel by Canadians to the US is down almost 50% from last year’s already drastically reduced levels. Part of this is a quiet Canadian protest against US imperiali...

Screencap of Krishnan Guru-Murthy’s interview of Tim Minchin

The idea that asking good questions is the best way to contribute to learning and intellectual discussions is probably as old as civilization.

I’ve written about the value of questions often on th...

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I am reading Italo Calvino’s last and unfinished work Six Memos for the Next Millennium.

Or, I should probably say, I am half-heartedly trying to read it, since it is all over the place, and packed with references to literature some of which was written millennia ago, some of it in dead languages, that ...

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Each month I’m finding it harder and harder to distinguish news and articles about “politics and economics as usual” from news and articles about collapse. I guess that means collapse — economic, political, ecological and all the rest of our complex civilization systems — is now well and truly underway. When I started writing ab...

“Preserve your memories: They’re all that’s left you.” — Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends
“The thing about time is that time isn’t really real.” — James Taylor, Secret O’ Life
“How come I miss what I never knew?” — James Taylor, Baby Boom Baby
“We seem to find meaning in what’s never happened. Our self-portraits use a lot of negative space...