My latest for Frontier Group, on the finger-wagging narcissism, grandstanding, posturing and sermonising that seem to have replaced debate over ideas and policies in certain sections of the political landscape.
My latest for Frontier Group, on the finger-wagging narcissism, grandstanding, posturing and sermonising that seem to have replaced debate over ideas and policies in certain sections of the political landscape.
…will be green.
“We humans have a tendency to see the world through the lens of what Henri Bergson called ‘habit-memory’ — our automatic reflex to make use of the ‘ready-made’ and to fall back into mechanical repetition of the same actions and ideas. Learning to listen to our imagination and to understand the places we live in a more intimate way can enable us to become attentive to the detail and complexity of the world around us that often get lost in our propensity for abstract thinking and the simplification of the world it entails. And this opens us up to new ways of thinking about problems, including global ones…”
Read the full article over on Medium.
Hiking Mt. Lowe
March 2019
It’s all explained in a new, unzeitgeistily upbeat blog post of mine over on the Frontier Group site.
An expert weighs in on the horrors of clean energy:
“I never understood wind… I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. [T]hey are manufactured, tremendous — if you are into this — tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything.”
Donald J. Trump, cosmologist and windmill expert (via The Hill)
A look back over Maffesoli’s 1988 magnum opus.
