We are made to be powerless in the face of evil
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ September 3, 2021
The American apocalypse is not sudden and catastrophic but slow and exhausting. Our litany of death is the idiotic acts of people consumed by evil that could be prevented but isn’t.
We can’t believe that people could do these things, but…
What we think is paradigmatic change may be collapse
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ August 11, 2021
We thought we understood paradigmatic change from Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions after watching the transformations resulting from e-commerce and social media. But it didn’t work out as we imagined.
The popular assumptions about paradigmatic change were…
We are in a complex failure of our planetary systems
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ October 13, 2021
We’re broke, our bills are due, and we can barely pay them. No wonder things are so screwed up. But those bills are only interest payments on four hundred years of debt. The bills on that loan’s principal are piling up…
This is the collapse of the old order and its economic disasters
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ October 8, 2021
We are so thoroughly screwed that hope is becoming just a rumor. And even that rumor is lost in the deluge of idiocy that is overwhelming us with the raw, ugly absurdity that is impossible to ignore.
This deluge is the…
This dastardly gambit has crossed my mind also. Sinema seems to be playing this with all the sophistiaction of old fashioned comic book. Unfortunatley this is the world of anime and she it going to trick her way onto the Titanic.
People understand what must be done but not why to do it
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ September 30, 2021
I, too, feel my compassion draining away as I watch people succumb to COVID by denying life-saving vaccines for themselves and others. In the first ten months of the pandemic, our traditional habit of blaming the victim was secondary to the…
We cannot afford to keep rebuilding our past
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ September 23, 2021
What can we rebuild from the wreckage around us? That is the question that will come to dominate the rest of this decade.
This question is not already dominating our discussions only because it is not allowed. Our mainstream media will…
As the war escalates, we need symbols of our battles
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ September 22, 2021
Things are definitely confused for people who expected traditional outcomes in 2021. Despite general discussion of the new normal by the end of 2020, most people held onto the idea of a return to the past.
This was supported by a…
With great respect for Ethan Siegel and this article, the problem is not error but complexity. Ffor most people, most of the time, following the scientific consensus in any specific area is the safest bet.
Once upon a time this was a far better bet than now.
We are overwhelemd…
How to adapt to Remote Work and Remote Education
by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ September 16, 2021
Paradigmatic change is confusing from any perspective but especially from the inside. Nevertheless, these are changes to long-held assumptions about how things work that allow us to not worry about basic operations in human society.
This is the way the world…
