How to save the world

In a recent interview by Chris Hedges, XR founder Roger Hallam, recovering from a series of imprisonments for protest activities in increasingly repressive and struggling post-Brexit Britain, talks about what we can do, and what we are likely ...

This is #56 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.

Two teenagers, possibly a younger brother and older sister, are sitting opposit...

This is a work of fiction.

“So there’s no self, no ‘I’ or ‘you’, just bodies conditioning each other. And those bodies ‘decide’ everything we do, based on that conditioning. And then our brains get to work, after the fact, to rationalize those decisions, to ‘make sense’ of them and integrate that knowledge into their completely useless belief systems, as if tha...

Now that the collapse of our political, economic, social and ecological systems is accelerating, the signs of this collapse, including scapegoating, corruption, and social disorder are becoming more obvious. This is the seventeenth of a series of articles on some o...

image by AI; my own prompt

Earlier this month, I was looking at my ‘upcoming blog post ideas’ list just before going into my bathroom for my morning shower. I was lamenting that none of the subjects on my list were very interesting, and contemplating skipping a couple of posts until there was something I really wanted to write about.

And then, as I was br...