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  1. Nov 2024
  2. Aug 2024
    1. The challenge and the problem is that  emergency to our neural ancestral wiring meant a saber toothed  tiger or something like that. And these risks are complex. They're in  the future. They're abstract. There are no easy solutions. the famous people on  TV aren't talking about them. so it's, really difficult.

      for - planetary emergency - psychological factors - the 5 Ds

      planetary emergency - psychological factors - the 5 Ds - Nate brings up the psychological challenges. These are summarized nicely by Per Espen Stokes interview on the Al Jazeera documentary below, where he discusses the 5 Ds:

      reference - Per Espen Stokes psychological factors that make climate action difficult - the 5 Ds - https://hyp.is/UgWKRlNcEe-sPqcIvC-9Aw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXys5VluIQ

    1. the 5Ds

      for - Climate change psychology - Per Espen Stokes - the 5 Ds

      Climate change psychology - Per Espen Stokes - the 5 Ds - Distance - far away in spatial distance and time - also consider hyperobjects - Timothy Morton - Doom - crying wolf makes us discredit the alarm message - second time we hear a doom message, 40% less salience - avoidance behavior - discredit climate activists - Dissonance - disconnect between belief and action - Denial - we can make lots of excuses - blame others - compare our footprint to others with much larger ones - temporary concern but quickly move on to other topics - iDentity - spend many years to build up my identity - factual inputs are compared to my identity's values - identity values usually trump facts when our identity is threatened

      climate crisis intervention - Any psychology-based climate intervention needs to leverage a combination of the 5 Ds.

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  6. Sep 2016
    1. From all the jails the Boys and Girls Ecstatically leap— Beloved only Afternoon That Prison doesn’t keep They storm the Earth and stun the Air, A Mob of solid Bliss— Alas—that Frowns should lie in wait For such a Foe as this—

      I can really see the argument here. Poetry is really a wild art form. Its structured, but supposed to be free flowing. It is literally an ambiguous art form.

    1. How are evolving technologies (like the iPad) helping to enliven (or disengage us from) the materiality of literary texts?

      Well for one thing it allows us to store all of the most referenced and revered canonical texts of humanity on a single device. In short it makes things more convenient to access. If I wanted to read the Dead Sea Scrolls, I'd have to become a world famous historian who specializes in dead sea antiquities. Nowadays, i can pull up a digital scan of the scrolls as well as a translation into Ebonics on my phone. Ten times more convenient.

  7. Jun 2016
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      Three things that have made me happy recently can be found on my blog.