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- Once more on Zombification
- Governed by Zombies
- Introducing Archetypology
- A Xmas Gift
- The Power of Archetypes: Raygun Edition
- The Games People Play
- Australia’s “let them eat cake” moment?
- Children of anti-nature
- What happens when your government’s a junkie?
- ChatWTF
- It’s the vegetables, stupid
- The American Comedy Rolls On
- Neoliberalism Must Die
- On hiatus (sort of)
- Midwife’s Advice
- The Uninvited Guest
- Trump and Luther: Unlikely Bedfellows
- The Key
- The Hitler Complex strikes again
- The Archetypal Human
- An Update
- The Presidential Myth
- Power and the Esoteric
- Livin’ in the Past
- Zero Sum Mythology
- The Three Pillars of Enabling
- The Trump Comedy
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 8: The Modern West as Cultural Holon
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 7: A Quadrant Analysis of Corona
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 6: Quadrant Fundamentalism
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 5: Wilber’s Quadrants
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 4: Wholes and Fields
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 3: Organisms and Civilisations
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 2: The Levels of Being
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 1: Introduction
- Patrick White’s “The Vivisector”
- From Alma Mater to Edax Mater
- Taking a Break
- The Universal State of America: Book Now Available
- The Universal State of America Part 5: Once more on pseudomorphosis
- The Universal State of America Part 4: Trade Wars and Psychic Battles
- The Universal State of America Part 3: The Civilisational Oedipus Complex
- The Universal State of America Part 2: The Unity of Microcosm and Macrocosm
- The Universal State of America Part 1: Coming Soon
- Tabula rasa squared
- A little bit of history repeating
- Life Lessons from Kurosawa Films Part 2: The Hidden Fortress
- Monstrosities R Us
- Intellect vs Will
- Life Lessons from Kurosawa Films Part 1: Sanjuro
- Welcome to the Machine
- The Religious Crisis of the Modern West
- The Encounter with the Soul
- The Hyper-Masculine
- King Lear’s Soul
- No post this week
- Shakespeare and the Archetypes
- Hamlet: The Tragedy of the Orphan
- To Lawn or not to Lawn
- Once More on the Esoteric
- The Great Levelling
- Can we afford that?
- A Theory of Everything
- The Intellectual Proletariat
- Exchanging Value
- Govern me harder, mommy
- On Solar and Lunar Knowledge
- Sabotage
- Get behind me, Technocracy
- Imperialism 3.0
- Play it again, Sam
- Christian Existentialism Part 6: The Rise of the Irrational
- Christian Existentialism Part 5: From Luther to Feynman
- Christian Existentialism Part 4: The Boiling Point of Water
- Christian Existentialism Part 3: Necessity vs Faith
- Christian Existentialism Part 2: The Worship of Idols
- Christian Existentialism Part 1: The Confrontation with Nothingness
- The Devouring Mother 2.0
- In Search of the Sacred
- Dictators and Deep States
- Poverty vs Subsistence
- What Lurks in the Shadows
- The Death of a Chicken
- The Nuremberg Defence Mark 2
- The Shadow of Innocence
- A Quick Note
- I want to trust the science
- The Inverted Maslow Hierarchy
- The Complexity of Social Systems
- Some thoughts on The Voice
- Divination, Intuition and the Irrational
- The Tyranny of the Minority
- The 4-Day Work Week
- On Keating and AUKUS
- Accidental Ornithology
- Egomania
- Something Different
- Re-thinking Spengler Final
- Re-thinking Spengler Part 10: The USA (Universal State of America)
Hey mate. Never heard of WEMP before. Interesting. “That’s why nobody wants to get rid of it, and why we…
Sandra – I think it was about ten years ago that the Australian government decided to remove limits and let…
Hi Simon, That it a very though provoking essay (as well as a bit depressing). As an accountant I now…
Daniel – when you have enormous amounts of wealth, you are shielded from the normal feedback loops. That works at…
If you have an oversupply of labor, one way to handle it would be to simply have shorter work weeks.…
When looking at modern western society there are endless examples of these pernicious effects; typically as a result of some…
Skip – interesting, and makes sense. Reminds me of a permaculture meeting I went to in Castlemaine once. I was…
Plenty have tried (including me). The problem with Bendigo and that box Ironbark country in general is the underlying geology…
Skip – Bendigo makes a nice case study. Is it possible to turn the area into a fertile one that…
Shelter belts of oaks and willows do a good job of stopping fires but they need care from a fertility…
Chris – That would be a grand work of “permaculture”. Could we transform the Victorian bush into something other than…
Hi Simon, Always wise to avoid having one’s brains consumed by zombies. Especially those fast moving zombies, they’re a bit…
Well, the first step is to not let your brains be eaten. Anything after that is a bonus 😛
That could be the case. Maybe it is hard to imagine for me as there are few (or no) honest…
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Roland – as the saying goes, politics is downstream of culture. The WEMP is very deeply embedded in the culture.…