by eab | Oct 28, 2018 | Blog |
We all want desperately to believe there is a way out of the sticky situation we’re in. To believe we can keep living basically the way we’re living now and yet not tip the world into climate and ecological catastrophe. Right? At this late stage of the game, we are...
by eab | Oct 26, 2018 | Blog |
What is “civilization”? We throw that term around as if we understand it but I’m not sure we really do. A quick internet search on “civilization” results in the following definition: “the stage of human social development and organization that is considered the most...
by eab | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog |
People sometimes tell me I’m a downer. That I’m angry. That I should think more optimistically, be more positive. I wish I could just post pictures of puppies and kittens and fabulous landscapes (carefully staged to show only the pretty parts). I’d...
by eab | Oct 14, 2018 | Blog |
“Nowadays most of us live in cities. That means most of us live in an insulated cell, completely cut off from any kind of sensory information or sensory experience that is not of our own manufacture. Everything we see, hear, taste, smell, touch, is a human...
by eab | Oct 10, 2018 | Blog |
In medias res Alas poor child, you’re born in medias res — the stage is set with swirling depictions of a globe in panic, small rainbow-colored frogs hopping into oblivion, a scene of smoggy atmospheres, vast gyres of plastic churning in the ocean, Scylla...
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