Age of Apocalypse

May 31, 2013

...c of an apocalypse meme should be noted: the insistence that this point in time, this convergence of signs, portents and factors is unique in all of human history. That while sure, other apocalypses haven’t worked out, this time it’s different. One of the apocalypse memes at the conference varied from the classic “chosen survivors” variant, and it is reflect in the writings of Guy McPherson, the speaker who caused the most buzz. In his worldview,...

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Our Phoebe is gone

Mrs. Homegrown

June 9, 2015

Cats

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...think, even possible for four years. She went to the hospital a couple of times, and bounced back like a champ, even though we were sure each time that it had to be the end. We suspected she’d been given three times nine lives, or perhaps she’d stolen a bunch of extra lives from kitty heaven. Her quality of life was very good until the the last couple of weeks, despite the severity of her condition. For most of her life, to look at her you’d have...

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A Three Step Strategy for Curing Internet/Smart Phone Addiction

Mr. Homegrown

March 8, 2017

Thoughtstylings

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...Silicon Valley elite who profit from our distraction. Still, there will be times that problem #1 gets the best of us. We won’t always succeed in avoiding the interweb hole and we might, as Newport suggests, even schedule some time to mindlessly surf just to get it out of our system. But the more we get out and just do stuff the less we’ll end up internet surfing and the better we’ll feel. In short, schedule a time to surf a real wave rather than a...

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Acedia Part II: An Internet of Narcissism

Mr. Homegrown

June 21, 2024

Thoughtstylings

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...ures, of style without substance” thinking of, I imagine, moments like the time the Yippies cast a spell to levitate the Pentagon or, in our time, throwing soup cans at paintings. He also targets therapeutic culture (much like Mark Fisher) and delivers a spot-on evisceration of New Age and Gnostic spirituality all of which he considers as support structures for a narcissistic ideology. I couldn’t help thinking about Lasch as I viewed the new Max d...

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What we think about when we try not to think about global warming

Mrs. Homegrown

October 26, 2015

Reviews

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...en Stoknes (Chelsea Green). Of it, she said, “For the first time in a LONG time, I feel hope and possibility when it comes to climate change.” So I read it, and now I feel the same way. Thanks, Brigitte! And the introduction of the book says pretty much the same thing, except the praise is coming from Jorgen Randers, one of the co-authors of The Limits to Growth. This is a man who has been waiting, pretty much fruitlessly, for us to wake up and ch...

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