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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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why haven’t you clicked yet? what’s wrong with you? you’ll miss out and everyone will think less of you!

For so many decades, now, I’ve asserted that the human species is essentially social, and have lamented our growing loss of connection from ...

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Our Sad SpeciesApr 20, 2025

I‘ve written before about why I see our species as being pathetic, in the original sense of the word — meaning deeply suffering

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photo by my friend Angelina, taken at a Banksy exhibition in Seattle

When a lot of people I know predicted chaos and disaster if Trump was re-elected, I was skeptical. He’d already served one term, and proved to be a relatively minor fu...

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If one believes, as I do, that all our behaviour is biologically and culturally conditioned, given the circums...

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I have often written that I think what humans (at least modern humans) seek more than anything else in their interactions with others are: attention, appreciation, and reassurance. But I’ve never specula...

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