Everyday Junglist
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About me. You know how everyone says to be a successful writer you should focus in one or two areas. I continue to prove them correct.
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Human Population and Conservation
If one thinks about what broad themes unite conservationists of all stripes a few main ideas emerge. Preserve biodiversity, maintain and expand wild habitat, decrease pollution and waste. Ultimately most of these boil down to a fairly simple formula. The more we can reduce man’s footprint on the planet the better it will be for every other living thing. The easiest and most straightforward method to achieve this end would be to significantly reduce the human population of the planet. I think most people understand this at some base level and I believe it explains a lot of the negative attitudes many people instinctually express when asked their feelings on the matter. Essentially the conservationist is asking us to admit that we are the problem, we are a net negative for the health of the planet, all living things would be better off if we ceased to exist. I know that few environmentalist/conservationists would put it exactly this way though many probably believe it. In point of fact until very recently I did too.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Earth
Radical Contrarianism Explained
I very much resist labels, especially when it comes to something as complicated as one's "overarching philosophy." That said, when I have been pressed on the question in the past I have used the term radical contrarian to explain one aspect of my philosophical approach to life. I really have no idea if such a philosophical school currently exists or has existed in the past. It definitely shares many aspects of any number of skeptical philosophies, and may in fact be known by another name among philosophers much more competent and knowledgeable than myself. However, for purposes of this piece I intend to ignore all that and try and describe radical contrarianism in my own words and also explain why I find it such a compelling, but also such a painful and alienating approach to life.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Humans
Vocal Has a Poetry Community
I don't even pretend to be a poet nor do I have any aspirations in that direction with my writings. My knowledge of poetry runs about as deep as my knowledge of crochet. However even I recognize the absurdity of trying to apply a minimum word count to works of poetry. Can you imagine if such a thing were the normal standard of practice in poetry throughout history? If not, fear not, I shall imagine it for you. See below.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Poets
Cats Vs. Dogs
Any of my readers who work in any business related career will be familiar with the SWOT analysis. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It is a way of assessing, in easily digestible form, an existing or potential market for a new or existing product which looks at that product in relationship to existing or potential competitors in that market. It is one of those things marketing loves to do because it makes it seem as if they have a role beyond just deciding what typeface to use on the company website, writing up social media posts five people will ever read, and collecting site traffic data to be analyzed by data scientists in an attempt to increase that number to six people. I kid of course, marketing is one of my favorite business functions, and critically important to business success, and mostly wont even bother with a post unless at least ten people at least will see it.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Petlife
Simulationist Church Members Contact Me in Mexico
I thought I had left all of this simulation hypothesis and Simulationist church crap behind me when I left my former home to move to Baja, California, Mexico some six months ago now. In retrospect it was probably naïve to think the church would completely forget about me, especially considering how much closer I would now be geographically to their main modern day stronghold, silicon valley in the state of California. From my new home just south of Tijuana it is only about 8ookm and a roughly 8.5h drive (depending on traffic) to make it to the valley of doom as I call it. Those who know me and my writings know that I am no fan of silicon valley and in fact have delivered many a verbal beating to a place populated by some of the worlds worst people doing some of the worlds most useless and wasteful things. Of course, it is also home to some of its best people doing the exact opposite of that. Unfortunately the former outweigh the later by a large margin which seems to grow larger every year.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Futurism
