I have been watching political leaders, all over the world, during this past two and a half years since Covid started and what strikes me is how in lockstep they all were, and still are, all parroting the same agenda as if reading from the same script. I watch the Read more…
The middle way – Mutual Benefit – Altruism: Love, Compassion and Non-violence (e.g., the Dalai Lama, Gandhi) – The power of truth must come through openness and transparency with no censorship and certainly no lies. I titled this post ‘health freedom’ but it could just as easily have been about Read more…
Another long post today – there’s so much to say and I am merely summarizing. As many if my regular readers will know, I am a natural skeptic and follow a Pyrrho of Elis kind of thinking (see a very early post Skepticism {January 2018}). I have long been skeptical Read more…
I last commented on the C19 vaccines in September of 2021 – so it’s a long post today. It’s time to revisit what is going on while keeping an eye on the great ‘Cognitive Distractions’ occurring around the world. But before I get to my update below, what I find Read more…
“The Hallmark of an open mind is not letting your ideas become your identity. If you define yourself by your opinions, then questioning them is a threat to your integrity. If you see yourself as a curious person or a lifelong learner, changing your mind is a moment of growth” Read more…
I often ponder the economic paradigms we use, and I agree with many of the great modern ecologically minded economic thinkers who have endeavored to illuminate us. Paraphrased, the problem can be simply summed up as, we cannot become sustainable as a planet while our human economic system keeps chasing Read more…
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing” Charles Bukowski. During his early life, my father went through hell and turned out sane. Read more…
I begin today’s post with a paragraph by poet Allie Michelle, because it is so poignantly on point about our need to stop accepting victimhood as normal and to claim back our power instead of waiting for others to create changes that we want. “We yearn for connection, yet isolate Read more…
I recently had a friend ask why I am talking about propaganda instead of giving more direct insights about sustainability. The reason, as regular readers of the blog will already know, is simple; our modern world is a result of how we live destructively to the planet because of the Read more…
“Propaganda works best when those who are being exposed are confident that they are acting on their own free will” Joseph Goebbels. I watched the historic series The Last Kingdom and what struck me was the way that it was all about the fight for power. That is the power Read more…
“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth” Garry Kasparov A revisiting to explain more why I spend time talking about propaganda and personal sovereignty in connection to Sustainability. Years ago, when I was an Read more…
“You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.” “There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you” Neale Donald Walsch. A bit of a deep rabbit hole dive today. Many of the modern Read more…
One of humanity’s greatest problems, and the one that has led us to creating the massive ecological crisis we now face, is the hubris in believing that we are the most intelligent species on the planet. Humans are definitely smart, no doubt about that, but with intelligence comes wisdom, and Read more…
One of the clichéd statements from modern environmentalists and spiritual gurus is that ‘we are all connected.’ But, ‘what if’ we all are? Most of our modern world is run on a scientific-materialistic paradigm (a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and Read more…
I was recently talking with an old friend about another friend of mine who is unwilling to discuss anything outside of her belief structure – either agree with her or don’t discuss it. This friend I was out with said, “that’s a shame, but at least we can agree to Read more…
Research shows that collective human Intellect is rising but collective human imagination is declining. This is being brought on by increased and continuing stress, anxiety, chaos, and trauma. While stress can be useful in very short term-threat situations, we live in a way such that we are essentially being forced Read more…
Why do we have governments? Not a simple question. Depending on whom you ask you will get a variety of answers. Five of the more common answers are: 1. The government serves the interests of the ruling classes; 2. The government balances the goals and decides the mixture of policies Read more…
In one of my university classes I used to show a picture of people in chains – Slaves. Then I would show a picture of people in cubicles doing their 9-5 drudgery. The difference I explained was that the first picture showed people who knew they were slaves. The second Read more…
Most governments around the world have been offering financial recovery packages to their people following the nearly two years of lockdown and what can only be innocuously termed as the Covid economic crisis. It’s all very noble, trying to help people get back on their feet, but the global economic Read more…
I often talk about potential ideas for creating a sustainable human culture on this planet. Technological sustainability is an exciting field with amazing innovation and potential. Yet, even 50 years after international recognition of our ecological problems (UNCHE, 1972 and 30 years since UNCED (Rio, 1992), all we have had Read more…
In the last post I overviewed stupidity that causes socio-cultural harm and if left unchecked can lead to totalitarian systems of manipulation and control. According to the Cipolla quadrant scheme, I interpret the world being run by a small group of the Bandits with lots of stupid people supporting them. Read more…
“Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupidity” Trudi Canavan Strange times we live in. Someone I know well recently called me stupid because I disagreed with her (she ardently trusts the MSM). I was merely asking her to consider a different perspective that countered her well entrenched beliefs. Read more…
I recently watched a news pundit on the MSM justifying the censorship about Covid. How noble of him to want to safeguard people from misinformation and from having people to think for themselves with more than the singular narrative. Could that be because they are truly concerned about the public Read more…
Part of our social contract with authorities is that we be told the truth about events going on in our world. Once upon a time the news media were our only source of information and we little option but to trust that the news pundits were generating their points of Read more…
“You are only not responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say when it is your duty to say something” Martin Luther. In my introduction to this blog, I talked about my transition from being a biochemist to environmental communicator and then Sustainabilitist. I was Read more…
“The most confused we ever get is when we try to convince our heads of something our hearts know is a lie” Karen Moning. If I had to use a one word to describe what is going on in the world at the moment I would use ‘Trust,’ or alternatively, Read more…
A bit of a swing off my usual path today. I have readers all over the world, so, this post is not trying to be an affront to any religious beliefs (whatever they may be) but a comment on how many religious autocrats over the centuries have worked to keep Read more…
When medical doctors take the hypocritic oath, they vow to ‘Do No Harm’ when they practice medicine, because human life (and by extension, all life) is sacred and to use your skills to harm anything living is a crime against humanity and the natural world. The Oath is an ancient Read more…
If anything, 2021 has shown us how technology has taken on a sacred aspect in how we let it dominate and control our lives – as much as money has become a central component in how our lives are determined. As religiosity has declined, technology has supplemented itself to become Read more…
I have talked about how science and spirituality separated during the Renaissance period (e.g., The New Physics and Cosmology part 1 – The Problem of Variable Constants {September 2020}) and how logic and reasoning set us on a cultural course of thinking that science can cure all ills. It began Read more…