Spontaneous Presence
Meeting the Coming World
Tag: Anthropocene
The Anthropocene: Humans Behaving Badly
Do humans have a purpose on earth? This is slightly different from asking a more open-ended, “What is the purpose of life?” or “Why are we here?” (in this universe). The question I’m asking, and hearing others ask, is more local, more pointed: “What…
The Path To Thriving I: Sustainability is Dead
For years the word sustainable held sufficient gravitas to alert us to advance a worthy objective: balance. As the increasingly terrifying news rises to and leaks over the bulwarks of denial and indifference, and despite political orchestrations and establishment media and especially the green…
We Are Failing
The Anthropocene is the label of choice for the success and the failure of humanity. Yet now, the signs of Nature withdrawing its endorsement of modernity are multiplying in frequency and diversity. She is fighting back against the totalitarian ideology of objectivity, which, ironically,…
Longchen Rabjam (1308-1364)
"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."
