For better or for worse, myths have always been used to cement societies. What was the effective role of the “War on Terror” narrative after 9/11 and why is the American public so prone to endorse myth making?
The Answer to Climate Change is Democracy
Climate change signs the failure of the “free market” ideology. In the transition from old neoliberal individualism to an economy embedded in people and nature’s shared destiny, a new intelligence of democracy is key.
A New Leaf: Extractive Humans
Our ways of thinking, emotions, and behavior patterns are shaped by the world we built for ourselves. It is not indifferent, therefore, that ours is an extractive one, including when it comes to food.
Will Technology Save Us?
“We can choose to keep shooting up the curve of exponential growth, bringing us ever closer to irreversible tipping points in ecological collapse, and hope that technology will save us. But if for some reason it doesn’t work, then we’re in trouble.” (Jason Hickel)
The Dynamics of the Archaic
Since the Ronald Reagan years, there is objective collusion in U.S. politics between religious archaism and market fundamentalism. How did this dynamic come to be and what makes it so powerful?