Metadelusion

When Mahatma Gandhi was asked “What do you think of Western civilization?” he supposedly replied “I think it would be a good idea.” It’s a g...

It's easy to see that we've made a mess of earth, but harder to grasp that being apex predators this is primarily a problem for US, ...

COP21 was adopted today, and it's an interesting document. Each paragraph begins with an italicized verb, and they are: acknowledges, af...

Iara Lee's "Synthetic Pleasures" focuses on transhumanists and their terrifying delusions and hubris. It only considers our as...

Re [ RealClimate comment ] #69 “The poster is deluding himself”: Delusion is an important part of our evolutionary toolkit. We tell ourselve...

I’m primarily focused on climate change, economic stratification, and unchecked development, and in my view these share a common cause, whi...

You may have read Naomi Klein’s recent Salon interview in which she posits that "Green groups may be more damaging than climate change...

Boston is encircled by a ring road called Route 128, along which you can occasionally see signs that say "America's Technology High...

To the Honorable Michael Capuano: Dear Sir, The Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse's "Time to Wake Up" speech exemplifies the bold...

Oregon man spends $27,000 on a single bottle of Scotch I find it fascinating that criticism of selfishness is consistently interpreted as ...

The neurotic obsession with weapons is an expression of selfishness, and reflects a splintered, delusional society teetering on the brink of...

I wasn't kidding about Climate Change Stress Disorder. Climate change is ruining my life. Just look at my reading list from the last co...

Regarding the alleged majority of voters who care about climate change: even if that's so and Obama is reelected, judging by Obama's...

@435 SecularAnimist: I think it is arguable that empiricism - which is the heart of science - is responsible for essentially all of humani...

James Hansen is sometimes accused of overstating his case, but I find him controversial for an entirely different reason: he consistently ...

Bruce Mau doesn't want to imagine a world without oil since it would be boring and bad for his business model, so you shouldn't t...

“The very idea that human beings, who are demonstrably unable to control our own most destructive behaviors, are going to be “stewards of t...

SA @307: Of course the cessation of human activities, such as the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels, that would accompany the disapp...

SecularAnimist @303 said: And social animals, including chimpanzees and wolves, clearly do have rights within the context of their social g...

Edward Greisch @ 296 said: Science is not "fundamentally progressive" Progressivism refers not only to the corresponding period...

SecularAnimist @183 said: The pathologically anthropocentric view that the world consists of (1) human beings and (2) “resources” for h...

Responding to SecularAnimist @183 on RealClimate Unforced Variations : "I am most concerned about 'saving' the Earth’s biosphe...

Responding to Edward Greisch @197 on RealClimate Unforced Variations : "Sociobiology has nothing whatsoever to do with eugenics....

In a discussion of climate change and its potential solutions, it's important to consider what we're saving, and what we're sav...

In response to Edward Greisch @ 147, commenting on previous Hubble post on RealClimate.org [list of sociobiology texts omitted]: "Sci...

According to Gallup, "Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at ...

Hi Chris, Happy birthday! Sorry not to hold up my end. But I did look at a whole bunch of Hubble images when I was in Vermont three weeks...

I did some background reading on science before my previous post. It seems both our positions fit reasonably well into known categories. My ...

There's stuff, in patterns. Patterns emerge from the stuff. Stuff emerges from the patterns. One or the other description may be more us...

Question 4 appears to be a trap. If I say that science is aesthetic, then it's merely subjective, in which case how is it any more ...

I will look at Hubble before I respond to post below or write more myself.  I haven't yet read your post below before posting these ques...

From my point of view the allegation that science is a delusion is as bizarre as Christians claiming to talk to Jesus every morning. It...

"whether our 'true nature,' fate and destiny is to live in competition and domination (power) or symbiosis and mutuality (whole...