Nor is it a hoax. Can we think straight? The internet is full to the hilt with stories, posts, and articles that all speak to the horrible ecological situation we humans collectively find ourselves in. “Environmentalism” has found its way into the mainstream, and is invoked in almost every area of our lives, from …
Rejecting the Allure of Short-Form Content This, no doubt, is a universal problem. The problem of our attention being rudely robbed from us, and directed towards content we might otherwise never have paid attention to. Let’s get honest. Were it up to the decision-making machinery we house in our skulls, we probably wouldn’t choose …
https://youtu.be/SA_2Ay7Kc38We are blessed daily with a Battery Full of Lunacy that must be discharged somehow throughout the course of the day. With this post, I want to explore how the Battery Full of Lunacy is helpful for physically demanding tasks in life. In this case, “The Battery Full of Lunacy” is synonymous with “energy”. But …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h_iTeMyj0E Addressing The Most Basic Basics An amped up racehorse parading around the ring just prior to his race is a sight to behold. This majestic beast is in the prime of his athletic life, ready to thunderously gallop across the finish line for the win. You can see the ripples of his striated muscles …
On Reading Reading is such a blessing! And I’m not about to reel off a dry list of “the benefits of reading” to try and convince you to get on it. How boring! I do, however, want to remind you about the flame that once roared from within after you read a book, a paragraph, …
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There will be a long stretch of our lives during which our minds will be pre-occupied with a low hum, a dull, nonetheless intense, feeling of tension. Each of us will feel the viscerally appealing pull backwards to an idealised, romantiscised past, and an opposite pull forwards toward an enticing, utopian ideal. Below, I lay …
The New Naturalist has an awful lot to do with self-development, and increasing one’s capacity to remain steadfast in the pursuit of understanding the truth of a given situation. It means being able to follow a dark, corrupt story right to its bitter end of immeasurable human suffering without losing your marbles. And without resorting …
I think The New Naturalist is best described as an ideal to strive for. A hypothetical individual who deeply understands the complex, multifactorial ecological problems confronting humanity, and who knows how to go about actually solving them. The New Naturalist is rigorously scientific and ruthlessly honest about their analysis of any given situation. As a …
