
INTEGRITY OF LIFE
Human-Shaped Society for a Post-Industrial World
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damariszehner
- Jul 30, 2020
- 6 min
Decline and Fall
On the increasing similarities between fourth-century Rome and the United States in 2020.
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damariszehner
- Jul 22, 2020
- 4 min
The Signs of Revolution
What happens to a country that is divided the way we are?
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damariszehner
- Jul 10, 2020
- 2 min
How Do You Imagine the Coming Collapse?
Poetry provides two alternate views of the post-industrial future.
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damariszehner
- Jun 14, 2020
- 4 min
Risk Assessment
We’re not any good at threat assessment. Familiar dangers are ignored, while the most remote ones seem the most fearsome.
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damariszehner
- Jun 5, 2020
- 4 min
Convenience, Community, and Late-Stage Capitalism
Convenience is killing community, and late-stage capitalism is delighted.
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damariszehner
- May 21, 2020
- 5 min
Our Robot Overlords
Which way will our enslavement to computers go in the next few years?
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damariszehner
- May 1, 2020
- 6 min
Counting the Cost
Are we wasting our human resources by trying to keep them safe?
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damariszehner
- Apr 23, 2020
- 4 min
Uncertainty and Grace
Who is right? Will staying at home or going back to work result in more people dying? We don’t know.
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damariszehner
- Apr 18, 2020
- 6 min
From Conquest to Balance
Ultimately nature will achieve the balance that it is always aiming for – with us or without us.
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damariszehner
- Apr 9, 2020
- 3 min
Beauty and Suffering
There is an objectivity, a humble self-forgetfulness, in recognizing the beauty that exists even when life is a wreck.
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damariszehner
- Mar 12, 2020
- 2 min
Human/Nature
To encourage alternate ways to approach ourselves and the world, this week I offer two poems rather than an essay.
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damariszehner
- Mar 5, 2020
- 6 min
Conservation and Capitalism
A review of a book that challenges our assumptions about human and nonhuman nature.
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damariszehner
- Feb 27, 2020
- 7 min
Panic at the Disco, Peace among the Bombs
Why is anxiety disorder more common in wealthy countries than in disadvantaged ones?
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