by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 5, 2022 | beyond idealism, Biosemiotics, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, philosophy of science, Plants, Systems thinking
In her editorial about my ‘Plant Philosophy and Interpretation: Making Sense of Contemporary Plant Intelligence Debates’ article in Environmental Values, Elke Pirgmaier writes ‘Plant Philosophy and Interpretation: Making Sense of Contemporary Plant Intelligence...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 2, 2022 | Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Communication, Conflicts of Interest, Discursive Gap, fake loops, folly, Industrial Epidemics
The Abbott Baby Formula catastrophe is what I’ve been writing about for years: it doesn’t matter if you’re making nuclear missiles or baby food, the industrial model predictably results in industrial epidemics. Here, I will look at how this story is...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 27, 2022 | Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Conflicts of Interest, death, deus ex machina, duh, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, Fragmentation, Industrial Epidemics, normalization, Perverse Incentives, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Unpleasant Design
As annoying as I find Russell Brand on occasion, in this case he makes a good point. The marriage of corporate and state power – technology and the monopoly on violence – which Mussolini called ‘fascism’ and Lewis Mumford called the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 8, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Communication, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, eating animals, Environmental Justice, Fake Freedoms, folly, Industrial Epidemics, meat, Priorities, Systems thinking, the real, Wolves in sheep's clothing
You would think that at Erasmus University, that those trolls wishing the end of the world so that they don’t have to examine their own lives would have the good sense to keep their mouths shut. Unfortunately, that seems to be an unfounded belief. The me-first...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 30, 2022 | agroecology, Aphorisms, beyond idealism, Biophilia, Decolonization, deep ecology, Indigenous Peoples, Uncategorized
Pat McCabe, Weyakpa Najin Win (Woman Stands Shining) of the Diné (Navajo) Nation describes the difference between lighting a fire by hand, versus with a standard plastic or metal lighter: “the machine takes out the tenderest part of feeling.” It’s not as if nothing is...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 29, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Conflicts of Interest, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, parasitism, philosophy of science
So, I came across this brilliant comedian on Facebook the other day, and Facebook, in all of their infinite wisdom censored it from me, according to their factcheckers (who have done absolutely nothing to curb climate change, by the way). Toni Bologna claims Vanguard...
