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Help. I’m too Closely Connected to My Land.

08Facebook TwitterLast week I described how Bud and Eunice Williams got pretty nervous when I started talking about my passion for grass management. When I asked him why, Bud simply said, “Sometimes people will bring livestock back to a pasture at just the wrong time for the grass and it really knocks it. They would have […]

Ranching vs Hunting-Gathering, Part I

10Facebook InstagramTwitterYouTubeWe were born into this world with an expectation. Natural selection gave it to us. Our world is very different than the one we expected. This distance is a canyon that gets perceptibly wider and deeper all the time. It grows by sudden big events and by tiny trickles over the millenia. This canyon is […]

I Have a Red Pill, an Antidote for that Other Red Pill You Took

10Facebook InstagramTwitterYouTubeOn the twentieth anniversary of the movie The Matrix, I might have to remind you that the movie was about a main character given a ‘red pill’ that allowed him to see the truth, that humans were controlled by a bunch of robots which created a virtual reality state that all the people lived in, […]

Vegetarianism and Veganism (Part 1 I’m sure)

10Facebook InstagramTwitterYouTubeI would never tell someone what they should eat. I consider propaganda of that nature to be intrusive, condescending, and dangerous. Trying to modify someone’s diet is a pernicious form of colonialism, or an abrogation of ones liberty as a free individual. That being said I am merely going to talk about it for a […]

The Ecology of Suffering (and joy, I guess)

10Facebook InstagramTwitterYouTubeBuddhist teaching says that life is suffering. That overstates the point a little bit (for a good reason) but it is true. Buddhist teaching goes on to say that we suffer because we ‘desire.’ There I disagree. I think there is a much more fundamental reason for our suffering, one that is much easier to […]

Paleoecology and Agronomy Part II

10Facebook InstagramTwitterYouTubeIn our interactions with the ecosystem we need a healthy dose of humility. Paleoecology can provide that humility. There are many organisms that have this survival thing down much better than we do. Let’s figure out how they do that. I was surprised by how controversial this was last time, so I am going to […]