by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 16, 2022 | Aphorisms, beyond idealism, Biomimicry, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, duh, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, folly, Fragmentation, Interspecies Communication, Naturverlassenheit, Uncategorized
When we farm fish, do we think that, perhaps, we’re being farmed as well? If not? Why not? When we bind life to fulfilling one function: delivering to us what we think we need; do we ponder whether our life also is bound to what someone else desires? When we...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 10, 2021 | beyond idealism, Fragmentation, Semiotics, Systems thinking
My kid doesn’t play with Legos the way that Lego wants you to think that people build Legos. Instead of those lush displays with those thousand dollar co-branded sets with odious media corporations that only have pieces that you can use in one way once and then it’s...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 18, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, glyphosate, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Semiocide, Semiotics, Syndemics, Systems thinking
The original article, published here, takes a rather pro-industry “we’ll engineer our way out of this” approach. Rather than observing a fundamental problem in putting artificial inputs unsustainably into agriculture, the article plays to the upbeat...