How to save the world

This is the fourth 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...

Some instrumental music you might have fun listening to while you read this; the music is produced by Suno AI but from my extremely long and complex prompt, just to see how much control over the composition I can exert; if the link above doesn’t work, try th...

Image from pixabay by Dean Moriarty, CC0

I‘ve written before about the value and importance of asking good questions.

I described the qualities of a ‘good question’, including Warren Berger’s

my own chart of collapse being a multi-stage, centuries-long phenomenon, with no ‘Hollywood’ moments or endings

There is a phenomenon in psychology called “creeping normality” which asserts that often changes occur so subtly and gradually that we d...

China’s provinces and administrative territories; map from wikimedia, CC-BY-SA 3.0

Until about a decade or so ago, I bought the whole western line about China — that their governments were ideological and oppressive, that they k...