At times my writing seems to be anti-technology. I can sound like an old curmudgeon. Just screaming into the void, ‘Back in my day we didn’t have do-hicky-McGadgets in our pockets that consumed our lives. Instead we went to work, played outside, and had bad backs by our forties.’ I’m not against technology, but I … Continue reading Social Technology

The way we perceive time can do a lot to frame our reality. We are an egocentric species so we mostly view time in terms of our lifespans. We see a hundred years as a long time and a thousand years as a very long time. Our limited understanding of time gives us a skewed … Continue reading Deep Time

We do not have much control over our lives. Seems that there is an incongruence between the amount of time and energy wasted on what we think we have control over and what we actually have control over. Our lack of control starts before we are born. We had no control over our birth situation … Continue reading Limited Control

We are at the end of one era and the beginning of the next. One era does not simply end. It gives way to another. For a time both eras exist simultaneously. This is the reason for the deep polarization of our current world. Half of us are racing into the new era and the … Continue reading Not a Steady Climb

We live in a society that guides us towards focusing on what we lack. We are inundated with advertisements and a general ethos that tells us we are not enough. That what we currently have isn’t, or shouldn’t be, enough to make us happy. We have been conditioned to believe that only that which is … Continue reading Focus on Lack