What I'm Thinking of Writing (and Podcasting) About Soon:
The Collapse of the US Dollar: 2007-08 Scenario:
I think the chart above, showing the value of the $US against a basket
of other currencies, is telling us that a collapse of the dollar is
imminent. It's time to lay out the scenario for what this will mean in
the year and decade ahead. No I-told-you-so gloating: there will be no
winners in this.
Birth Rates Rising Again: The Population Bomb Is Still Ignited: Some new data suggests that those who think population growth will stop on its own are dreaming in technicolour.
Why We Need a Public Persona:
The journey to know yourself is the first step towards understanding
how the world works and becoming truly yourself, which is necessary
before you can make the world a little better. As de Mello said, this
journey is mostly about getting rid of the everybody-else stuff that
has become attached to us as part of our social conditioning, and
getting rid of this stuff is perhaps what ee cummings meant when he
said the hardest thing is to be nobody-but-yourself when the world is
relentlessly trying to make you everybody-else. From birth, we pick up
all this everybody-else stuff that clings to us and changes us, muddies
us. We are rewarded by society for doing so. I find the 'figments of
reality' thesis helpful in this hard work -- realizing that our minds
are nothing more than problem-detection systems evolved by the organs
of our bodies for their purposes, not 'ours'. That 'we' are, each 'one'
of us, a collective, a complicity. What makes it so hard is that
becoming nobody-but-yourself opens you up to accusations of being
anti-social, weird, self-preoccupied, arrogant etc. So we end up, I
think, having to adopt a public persona that is, to some extent, not
genuine, not 'us' at all. That's hard. How can we make this public
persona as thin and transparent as possible?
Why are Gas Prices So Low?: Delayed until I have some clue as to what the answer might be. This has got me stumped.
Vignettes: Coming up soon, vignette #6.
Blog-Hosted Conversations:
This week I'll be publishing my narrated, edited interview of Chris
Corrigan, which I recorded earlier this week, and recording a second
interview on the same subject: "What is your
model of a better way to live, and what capacities do we need to
develop or re-learn to live that way?" Haven't decided who the second
interviewee will be, yet.
Possible Open Thread Question:
When the price of oil has risen 40% since May, why have gasoline prices gone down? |
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