Pick any major American city these days, as well as its suburbs, and you’ll see (or feel) tailgating as a prevalent part of the driving experience. Road rage, specifically tailgating, is mostly due to the shortsightedness of individuals given the free reign to operate a heavy mass of machinery at whatever speed they choose. Give [...]
Posts Tagged ‘consumerism’
The religion of growth
We like to cover a lot of ground at this blog from the conservation-conservative perspective. Recent history in the western nations has shown a pattern of novelty seeking type behaviour that has reached into almost every part of civilization today. Modern economics, called a social science, is little different. Novelty seeking is a better description [...]
Modern child rearing
Our modern world is a bombardment of distilled ideas and polarizing opinions, so it’s no surprise when well-intentioned parents become confused a month or two after leaving the hospital. Parents are overloaded with too many books to read, too many opinions, too many new “studies” showing what one should and shouldn’t do with, or feed [...]
Liberalism caused global warming
As a writer, I enjoy narratives — stories, or rather, storylines. They are how we explain our world to each other and to our children, and so are perhaps more important than truth. But I’ve come to distrust the power of the word over the years, since it’s easy to construct a semi-plausible and appealing [...]
Ideas without vision are useless
I’m in touch with folks that are considered part of Generation Y (I sort of fall in between X and Y, I guess). Many of them have no desire in kids or families, date casually, listen to vinyl, and generally strike back against anything their parents do with a hipster attitude typical of those we [...]
Food for thought
From Jesus to Wall Street
Rethinking individualism
Say you walk into a building at which you’re employed. You feel businesslike – coat, computer bag over shoulder, maybe a cup of coffee or tea in hand. Others look similar and climb into the elevator with you. Buttons are pressed. Your eyes venture, but never into other eyes. Stainless steel walls in this contraption [...]
Ignoring the patterns of nature
Modern life takes effort. Just getting through to the end of the day — fighting egos and layers of management at work, then ignoring family drama, then a few hours of TV before bed — can take all you’ve got. But the last thing you need is some idiot telling you that “life is precious,” [...]
The meaningless life of a pet
Everywhere in modern civilization we find our societies getting drunk on all kinds of useless freedoms; one of the most useless is that of owning pets which neatly follows from the undeniable ‘human rights’. The reason why many people buy pets these days may be familiar to what Ted Kackzynski called the power process. In this it [...]
Swamped in advertising but economy still failing
At some point, when the noise to gain ratio is so heavily on the noise side of the scale, for us fallible humans, gain discernment becomes impossible.
