This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. SUPPORTING MILLIONS OF BEINGS My wife and I have land in the Andes mountains, and we are in the process of helping the […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. OUR MANY ANCESTORS And imagine the many non-human ancestors going much further back… to the first one-celled organisms. Our earliest ancestors are the […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE ECOSYSTEMS HAPPENS WITH US (*) I have never quite understood people who talk about “the environment” as a kind […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. A FEW IMPRESSIONS FROM RETURNING TO NORWAY I am just back in Norway, and a few things strike me. I love being here. […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. WE ARE GOOD, THEY ARE BAD I saw one of the old-fashioned stone age stereotypes this morning and was reminded of the “we […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. MAKING A HORRIBLE COMPROMISE? I saw a Western commentator saying that we’ll need to make a “horrible compromise” so Putin won’t escalate the […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. JUSTIFYING INJUSTICE WITH SPIRITUALITY Religion and spirituality have always been used to justify injustice. The most recent one I heard was from a […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. THE ZEAL AND IMMATURITY OF THE NEWLY CONVERTED I: CONSPIRACY THEORIES When I see conspiracy theorists, I often see the zeal and immaturity […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. REGENERATION AND CULTURE My wife and I became stewards of some beautiful land in the Andes mountains. It’s been heavily grazed in some […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. SURVIVOR BIAS I listened to an old interview with a Norwegian saboteur from WW2 and his story was of one amazing lucky escape […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE WORLD If we put pressure on someone to get a particular result, they will typically push back – either […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. OPINIONS AND WHAT THEY ARE ROOTED IN Some people like to pretend that their opinions about something are equal to the views of […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. WHY DO PEOPLE IN THE WELLNESS WORLD SO EASILY MISLEAD THEMSELVES? Quite a few people in the wellness world buy into anti-pandemic measures […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. THE TRUTH IN THE SEEDS OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES There are several relatively obvious truths in the seed of many conspiracy theories. The medical […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. THE BIGGER PICTURE ON CONSPIRACY THEORIES There is a relatively obvious (?) bigger picture on conspiracy theories. And that is the life, the […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. FREEDOM & RESPONSIBILITY Some countries require proof of vaccine for entering public spaces like restaurants and movie theaters. In response, some vaccine skeptics […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. ART HISTORY In the early ’90s, I studied art history for a year (full time) at the University of Oslo. Since they called […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. AN ATTITUDE AMONG THE PRIVILEGED TOWARDS THE MARGINALIZED One attitude among the privileged towards the marginalized is that they are lazy, could work […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. SUDDEN SYSTEMS CHANGES Earth is an immensely complex system, and its behavior is similar to any system. It stays mostly (dynamically) stable within […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. Well captured. tagged: culture, ecology, politics, reflections on society, society
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. SCIENCE LITERACY & THEORIES I saw a social media post stating that a theory in science is not “just a theory”, it’s proven […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. SPACE BUGS? I am rewatching the Andromeda Strain where a crashed satellite (!) infects humanity with a space bug. And I am also […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. MOON LANDING I watched Armstrong (2019) and was happy to see that they, through Armstrong in his own words, touched on some of […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. VALUES, STRATEGIES, AND POLITICS Most humans have shared values, at least when we drill down to find the most basic expression of our […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. SOME LAYERS I USE WHEN I LOOK AT SOCIETY When I write posts here, I write from one or a few perspectives. These […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. POLITICAL DIMENSIONS I FIND USEFUL There are some political dimensions I find as useful as the conventional ones. The main one may be […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. A CONSPIRACY TO USE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS I love this, although I would rephrase it slightly: “Just wait till conspiracy theorists discover they’re part […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. WHAT DO CONSERVATIVES CONSERVE? Politics doesn’t interest you because you have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well – Edith to Sherlock […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. DISREGARDING SOCIAL ISSUES I am watching Enola Holmes and enjoy it very much. I especially enjoy that they are highlighting an inherent problem […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE WILL BE ALIEN TO US I saw someone commenting that he doesn’t like the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey much […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. POST-COVID ILLNESS & CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME Mainstream doctors and media seem to acknowledge occasional long term effects of C19 infection, including fatigue, brain […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. The only white people in the Bible are the ones who executed Jesus. – John Fuglesang For Christians who hold racist views, there […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. NORWAY’S REASON FOR NOT RECOMMENDING FACE MASKS In the beginning of the pandemic, the Norwegian government decided to not recommend face masks to […]
This is one in a series of posts with brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. WHY DO I CELEBRATE OUR NATIONAL DAY? I have lived in Norway and the US, and on the respective national days, a question […]
Continued from previous posts…. These posts are collections of brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. THE UPSIDE OF TRUMP When Trump was elected, there were demonstrations in many cities in the US. I never saw Trump’s election as “wrong”. […]
Continued from previous posts…. These posts are collections of brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. Gritty wholesomeness I was very skeptical when I first started watching Outlander but I have come to love it. I love it mainly for […]
Continued from previous posts…. These posts are collections of brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. Who is it for? I watched Won’t You Be My Neighbor, a 2018 documentary about Mr. Rogers. A few times during the interviews, the […]
Continued from previous posts…. These posts are collections of brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include short personal notes as well. Click “read more” to see all the entries. Wholesome I watched A beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and although I initially was skeptical I loved it. I like wholesome approaches to life. […]
Continued from previous posts…. These posts are collections of brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include a few short personal notes as well. Climate crisis renaissance Are we in for a new renaissance? A climate crisis response renaissance? I wouldn’t be surprised, and we are already seeing the beginnings of it. We already […]
Continued from previous posts…. These posts are collections of brief notes on society, politics, and nature. I sometimes include a few short personal notes as well. Why I love science fiction I have loved science fiction since I was little, reading Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and others. Why do I love it? Probably for […]