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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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I’m Not Actually Very Good At What I Do


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When I grow up, I want to learn to write like this:

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The World After Collapse: A Different Kind of Language

This is the first 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 civilization’s fall is complete — probably centuries from now — the remnants of the human species might be unrecognizably different...

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Infantilized By Tech

Marshall McLuhan famously said “Knowledge creates ignorance.” He wasn’t being flip. He was asserting that the more we know, the more we realize we don’t know. Or, looked at another way, the more we believe we know, the less we are aware of, and open to, knowledge that refutes that belief.

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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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