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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.
image by AI; my own prompt
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how reluctant we humans are to accept truths that clash with our worldview — our beliefs about the world.
This is, of course, understandable. Our worldview is a complicated, interwoven set of judgements, feelings, and other results of sense-making that we have amassed over a lifetime. It’s the...
The image on the History and Context card in the Group Works deck. Image by Nomad Tales on flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0 (this artist is no longer on flickr).
Before our average attention spans were reduced to something less than a minute, we were required, if we expected to ...
image by AI; my own prompt — ‘me’ imagining worst-case scenarios
Every day, something happens that gets me anxious or upset. Technology failures, news about outrageous events, abuses and other horrors, meanness and unfairness by people I know or observe. Small worrisome physical or mental health issues. Dismay and shame at my own behaviours. Dread about som...
This is a work of fiction.
image by AI; my own prompt
I had been blathering on about our lack of free will, in my usual annoying way, when my friend said to me:
“You keep insisting that we have no free will, and no ‘self’ even to have it. But at the same time you say that we are somehow able to become more ‘self-aware’, enough to recognize our condit...
This is #54 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.
my own photo, from a number of years ago
As I trace the path...