BTime of TroublesWorld war three seems to be cancelled. The collapse of western institutions and states not.5d ago105d ago10
BThis Civilization Is Not Interested in Saving ItselfOne of my favorite tropes — used by activists of all stripes— is ‘acting like a rock in a stream’. According to this metaphor a handful of…Jul 826Jul 826
B2019: Peak (Western) CivilizationAccording to the plot of the movie, The Matrix, robots had won the war on humanity and put each and every one of us into a virtual reality…Jul 125Jul 125
BMeet The Mind-Virus: WetikoIt all started with writing post after post on how the “energy transition” is nothing but a fairy tale we tell ourselves to avoid facing…Jun 1744Jun 1744
BCould We Do Civilization Better?There seems to be a persistent mental bug preventing us from building a sustainable civilization. So far I have been focusing on the…Jun 1031Jun 1031
BThe Energy Transition Story Has Become Self-DefeatingWe need another kind of transformation more than everJun 327Jun 327
BThe End of Science as a Useful ToolDespite the rapid roll-out of seemingly newer and shinier than ever technologies, something seems to be amiss with science. The symptoms…May 2031May 2031
BMusings on the Nature of TechnologyRecently I have been on a four-day hiking trip, completing another 80 km (~50 mile) stretch of the 1171 km National Blue Trail running…May 1323May 1323