Human beings are story tellers. Much of our present danger and urgency is due to our advanced ability to think in stories, rather than to feel reality.
As Yuval Harari has noted, we invent non-real fictional entities such as economics, borders, money, and religion. …
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I haven’t used a swear word. Yet.
We were raised that way. There is more than one reason. Grandmother’s rigid Presbyterian religion that laced us up from Nova Scotia to Vancouver likely had something to do with it.
That is not the…
It’s been decades, in some cases, a century, since scientists first offered up warnings about climate warming and possible catastrophe.
Half a century ago it was called “the greenhouse effect.” People yawned.
Who cares? That’s in the far-off future.
Finally, the people are beginning to look up. Even the movie…
It’s easy. Hold on to the truth. Here it is: nature is true. The present is eternity.
Nature is steadfast, reliable, predictable in its larger sense. Gravity will hold you to the Earth. Trees and plants will make your food. Animals, including we human animals, will protect the plants and…
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A buff guy, less often — a very buff woman, puts on a tight costume.
There’s crime to be fought, scores to be settled! Quick, find all these amazing devices, and deeds of daring do!
Then they do it again.
And again.
…
First love your family.
Even crazy, racist Uncle Bob. Even closeted, and weirdly homophobic, Cousin Mary. Let’s say grammpa thinks “women’s lib” or “identity politics” has gone too far. Make a joke of it. Let’s say gramma (predictably) thinks her spouse is an out-of-touch, old man of the patriarch.
He…
Let’s face it, racism and sexism are an enormous energy suck and waste of human time. It’s time to stop talking about identity, right? Let’s just act more justice-like about it.
Correct.
But, let the conversation continue!
The rabble makes noise, and we who wish to preserve civility and sanity…
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We are addicted to gasoline. We lapped up all the greenwashing lies that said we are doing so much better, and using “transition” fuels, such as natural gas. We are investing in algae-colored, green-washing, smears of reality.
No real serious investment is…
Some say it’s a hoax, the latest: Omicron
Health workers worn weary of medical marathon
There are too many patients, but not enough patience
When people got too tired to use their common sense
We’re running out of workers, and running out of beds
We have bonkers and berserkers, and misinformation…
