Thoughts and Thinkers
is technology the biggest ponzi scheme of all?
I’ve been prevented from sharing on the blog recently because of my regimen of finals at University of British Columbia but I had to pass on this talk from Archeologist Sander van Leeuw. Stewart Brand’s The Long Now Foundation is always posting great talks but this one was my favorite on the podcast feed thus far. (Michael [...]
quote of the day: on technology and learning with C.P. Snow
C.P. Snow’s lecture on the Two Cultures is a classic. Here is another great quotation from C.P. Snow,
demonstrating telepathy with an experiment
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake has always been one of my favorite scientists willing to challenge the scientific paradigm. This short video demonstrates a simplistic version of his telepathy experiments. To demonstrate his concept of morphic fields, channels of information exchange within families, species and the ecosystem Sheldrake asks these sisters to guess which one is on [...]
cultural revolution is the solution
Paul Ehrlich is convinced that global civilization collapse is coming and that the only solution is a cultural revolution. Ehrlich made a name for himself by taking controversial stances on population and many people have interpreted that as eugenics. I don’t think we are overpopulated in principle but overpopulated in method.
an alternate monetary operating system
Douglas Rushkoff isn’t always making the most economically popular arguments but I think he’s on to something when talking about currency. Thinking that the current incarnation of the monetary economy is the only system for money isn’t only dangerous, it is incredibly ignorant. As the energy supporting overinflated fiat currencies like the US dollar becomes [...]
Collapse, coming to a theatre near you… hopefully before things fall apart
As independent journalist Michael Ruppert sits in a chair, in a dark room, smoking and saying alarming things my remote desire for business as usual went up in the smoke from the end of his cigarette. I’ve seen Chris Martenson’s Crash Course a few times. I’ve seen the 45 minute version of it too. I’ve [...]
realms of the human unconscious
Maybe we have to be born with an interest in the origin of consciousness, where it resides and how it operates, I’m one of those people. No explanation garnered by science, religion, mystics, or from indigenous wisdom has ever fully approximated what I’ve seen in the world. Transpersonal psychologist Stanislov Grof’s first book, Realms of [...]
Dr. Jason Bradford on how our agricultural system is primed for collapse
I just read over some troubling facts from Dr. Jason Bradford, an expert on food economics and the the problems with the US Food System. In light of the information below, I’m surprised we can keep the whole industrial ag. juggernaut moving forward. Throw in the variability of energy scarcity over the next few decades [...]
why do we need PhDs?
I’m approaching the end of my first semester in graduate school at the University of British Columbia and I’m really enjoying the field of the materials sciences. Thusly, I’m beginning to consider the advantages of a PhD in the field. Yet part of me hesitates.
the antidote for determinism
Like the current era, the United States of the mid-70’s and early 80’s were tinged with a new batch of thinkers making strong cases for the reorganization of society. Interestingly, this period corresponds to the time when the United States peaked in domestic oil production. Economic growth slowed to a crawl and people were considering [...]
