It used to be all in good fun… Once upon a time in America, the majority of people lived their lives of quiet desperation and a few got famous for being in the right place when the cameras came on. Citizens labored in the background as pretty people with good…

Systems create evil actions by preventing skepticism. We are all stuck in the System molasses of the past and present, dreaming of the future, but unable to imagine what our future self will want. “It’s been difficult to see humans as anything other than selfish, greedy, environmentally destructive parasites. There’s…

Far be it from me to pander to your doomscrolling adventures and fantasies of Superheroes saving us from the Robot Apocalypse, but sometimes, I just get a little tired of the obfuscation of our ACTUAL situation. Even Caitlin Johnstone (Our Entire Civilization is Fake and Stupid), who is a magician…

Basic Physics vs Renormalization Economics I’m not going to tell you why we’re doomed. That’s pretty simple and subjective, but anyone can see that the reason why we are doomed is “because humans are stupid and selfish”. Clever, yes, but stupid nonetheless. “Clever will substitute for intelligence for a time…

Suburbs based on automobiles. “Don’t attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance- but don’t rule out malice.” Hanlon’s Razor As Ryan Scott Welch points out, most people only remember the first part because we don’t want to deal with both at the same time. Unfortunately, America has…

Response to “Energy”. Thanks, Frederick Bott. I was thinking about writing something similar, and now I can let you run with it instead. Quantifying the ‘necessary’ use of energy vs the unnecessary could be the next step from here. I’ve thought some about seasonal migration of humans as the planet…