Climate Change (Finally) Enters the Therapy Room (for the Rich, who can afford Therapy)

by | Feb 9, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Decolonization, deep ecology, duh, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, normalization, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Uncategorized, Verschlimmbessern

(Background NYTimes Article for Reference) As I’ve always said, the NYT is 5-10 years behind the times (their feedback loop doesn’t extend beyond New Yorkers making 5M+). This has been a subject psychologists have been dealing with for at least 20 years in the west,...

Fractal Instrumentalism

by | Jan 16, 2022 | Aphorisms, beyond idealism, Biomimicry, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, duh, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, folly, Fragmentation, Interspecies Communication, Naturverlassenheit, Uncategorized

When we farm fish, do we think that, perhaps, we’re being farmed as well? If not? Why not? When we bind life to fulfilling one function: delivering to us what we think we need; do we ponder whether our life also is bound to what someone else desires? When we...

The push and pull of ecocide

by | Jan 16, 2022 | Uncategorized

Planned Obsolescence is just the verso side of perpetuating fossil fuels. GM’s buying up and then sitting on patents for electric cars in the 1960s is but an example of how the fossil fuel industrial complex has retarded energy evolution. The fossil fuel...

Organisms and Agency

by | Jun 1, 2021 | Uncategorized

Responding to an article in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/01/wuhan-coronavirus-lab-leak-covid-virus-origins-china the medical ethnobotanist and philosopher Stephen Buhner had the following astute observations (posted in Facebook):...