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How do we stop the world from ending?

Maybe eat less meat and dairy? We’ve made an impact on our planet. We’re altering the climate and fomenting catastrophic ecological disaster. We know this is happening, yet things are only getting worse; no one seems to be doing anything. At least, none of the people around me. It’s hard…

Climate Change

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How do we stop the world from ending?
How do we stop the world from ending?

Published in Science For Life

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The Fertility Rate in the US Has Plummeted

It affects everything and no one is talking about it. For a population to replace itself, the fertility rate, historically and without scientific question, has to be 2.1 (births per woman). In the US, right now that number is 1.70, and decreasing. In other words, as our population ages, we’re…

Fertility Rate

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The Fertility Rate in the US Has Plummeted
The Fertility Rate in the US Has Plummeted

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The Commercialization of Reality

How technology shapes culture and politics Reality has always been subjective. Objectivity may be the domain of certain philosophers and scientific materialists, but both would surely agree that an objective reality cannot ultimately be perceived. What consciousness could experience it? How can it be objective while being witnessed? Unless the…

Infotainment

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The Commercialization of Reality
The Commercialization of Reality

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We Live in a Deterministic Universe

Free will is an illusion I think we know the universe is deterministic. We just fool ourselves otherwise. Our egos need to believe in their own agency. Yet, there are clues all around us we’re playing a charade. Let’s start by thinking of the number of phrases we use, everyday…

Philosophy

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We Live in a Deterministic Universe
We Live in a Deterministic Universe

Published in Change Your Mind Change Your Life

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Why Eating Meat Is Totally Unnecessary*

*For me, a healthy, privileged white man in an affluent society — Hi. I’m a healthy, privileged white man in an affluent society, and I’ve been an on again / off again vegetarian throughout my life. Yay, me! My current stretch isn’t even my longest — it will be just two and a half years in January. But I’m positive it’s going…

Plant Based Nutrition

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Why Eating Meat Is Totally Unnecessary*
Why Eating Meat Is Totally Unnecessary*

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The Worst Part of Living in a Dystopia isn’t What You Think
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Better get your cabin in the mountains now. Last I checked, they're going for a few million apiece.

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Published in ILLUMINATION

·Jun 8

Why We Need a Support Group for Climate Change

I want to talk to people who understand — don't you? People are carrying on as if nothing is the matter in my everyday life. The kids are almost done with school, and summer plans are being made. Where I live, we look forward to summer since the winters can…

Climate Change

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Why We Need a Support Group for Climate Change
Why We Need a Support Group for Climate Change

May 30

All the best movie heroes are sigma males (or females)

We most admire the lone wolf. I watched Top Gun: Maverick this week. It was fun, in a soft-reboot (a.k.a. legacy sequel) kind of way. Maverick is thirty years older, but he’s basically still the same. And that’s the point: rather than having leveled up to say, a Navy Admiral…

Film

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All the best movie heroes are sigma males (or females)
All the best movie heroes are sigma males (or females)

Published in Change Your Mind Change Your Life

·May 26

What I’ve Learned Not Being on Social Media For Two Years

I’m happier, and you can be, too. — First, let’s define terms: by “social media,” I mean the social networks Facebook and Twitter. I still have a LinkedIn account. God knows why. And Medium is technically socially media, but it’s so functionally different. I’d joined Facebook in 2007 when a friend sent me an invite. I’d never even…

Social Network

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What I’ve Learned Not Being on Social Media For Two Years
What I’ve Learned Not Being on Social Media For Two Years

Published in Thoughts And Ideas

·May 25

Does Capitalism Really Make Us Free?

The thing you’ll hear time and again from conservatives and libertarians is how people ought to be free of government to do their thing. Competition, the free market, etc., will spur innovation, grow the economy, and so on. I have absolutely no problem with the idea that individuals, free and…

Late Stage Capitalism

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Does Capitalism Really Make Us Free?
Does Capitalism Really Make Us Free?
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