Popular Narratives That Do Not Hold Up Under Scrutiny
Pilot Mountain in North Carolina
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The New Era We Are Entering
Linn Cove Viaduct, Blue Ridge Parkway, as seen from above the Rough Ridge Lookout on the Tanawha Trail
What is Our Actual Reality?
The Blue Ridge Discovery Center in Konnarock, Virginia I read many articles every month, which allows me to detect certain patterns within these articles. (I am working on slowing down on the number.) A large percentage of most of them contain so much bargaining and hopium that a reader who understands the predicaments we face can only laugh or cry at them. I try to glean what I can from them and ignore the parts of denial of reality and optimism bias , but some articles are so full of crap it's just not funny. Here's a prime example of what I'm talking about (although I often list these types of articles and have even written entire articles based upon them, named appropriately, Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales ). That article (the prime example) lists an issue caused by several different symptom predicaments of ecological overshoot , namely, pollution loading , climate change, and ocean acidification (also a symptom of climate change). Now, to be sure, the ble...
Our Anthropocentrism and Psychology, Part Two
The ongoing construction of US 58 in Virginia near Lovers Leap Overlook as it looked in May 2025
Rationalizing, Storytelling, and Narrative-Generating Apes
Falling Spring Falls, Falling Spring, Virginia
