We have reached the end of civilization, or at least civilization still governed by human beings. Evolutionarily speaking, our rule has been a blip in human history. Before civilization, we’ve lived subject to the old gods: weather, natural disasters, random chance, and of course, death. Now, with the exception of death, we have largely conquered […]
John C. Lilly is one of my favorite “alternative” scientists. His popularity has waned significantly since his death in 2001, even as his contemporaries like Timothy Leary and Terence McKenna have continued to have strong followings. Still, Lilly’s admittedly outrageous ideas and prophecies are worth remembering, not because they are necessarily true, but because, like all mythologies, they give us […]
A few years ago, I created these two videos for an educational software program I was working on. These videos were never utilized, but I rather liked them. The footage was compiled from several dozen public domain videos downloaded from Archive.org. The music I used is under creative commons license available here. Feel free to use […]
Here’s my new interview with Deck Hazen of Deep Green Productions. We discuss Lewis Mumford’s “Megamachine” and how it and other bureaucracies within society deprives us of our moral autonomy.
George Carlin once joked that mankind has done little more than demolish, harvest, strip-mine and otherwise blast nature into the past, where men of science hope it will stay, out of sight and out of mind, a phantom of a world that no longer exist except in very specific fenced in areas for tourist to gawk before […]
How is that for an ambitious question? So what is the meaning of life? Well, if you ask most people from a complex, industrial society, you will get a lot of unsure answers. Occasionally, you will get an answer rooted in religion such as, “The purpose of life is to serve God,” but what that […]
