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How to save the world's title: how to save the world | Dave Pollard's chronicle of civilization's collapse, creative works and essays on our culture. A trail of crumbs, runes and exclamations along my path in search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.
my own chart of collapse being a multi-stage, centuries-long phenomenon, with no ‘Hollywood’ moments or endings
There is a phenomenon in psychology called “creeping normality” which asserts that often changes occur so subtly and gradually that we d...
China’s provinces and administrative territories; map from wikimedia, CC-BY-SA 3.0
Until about a decade or so ago, I bought the whole western line about China — that their governments were ideological and oppressive, that they k...
This is a work of fiction.
image by AI; my own prompt
I shield my heart from tragic news,
From warnings of what’s soon to come,
And lock away compassion’s fire —
It’s safer now to just be numb.
I dread to think what others know
Beyond the headlines’ fleeting glare,
For every truth I let inside
Strips hope away and...
image by AI; my own somewhat hyperbolic prompt
Reconnaissance
The ravens come to feast upon the deer.
Their talons are too dull to tear like claws.
They smartly team with wolves, as hunting peers
And point the way to road kill with their caws.
Image of wildfires in Montana comes from rawpixel.com, and is labeled Public Domain.
The media are full of ‘explanations’ (opinions) about what is going on in the world. What is Trump thinking. What does country X ‘want’. W...