Original post from April 17, 2021 It’s hard to overstate the extent to which most of what characterizes our modern life is anomalous and unsustainable – a term that obfuscates its message of “to continue like this is suicide.” We automatically assume what we experience daily is normal, fine, reasonable. On the one …
Original post from April 10, 2021 Among the ideas I want to introduce to my Hebrew-speaking audience, one of the most misunderstood is Universal Basic Income, or UBI for short. UBI means that everyone is entitled to a fixed income that is enough to cover our basic needs – without extras, but also without …
Original post from April 3, 2021 I ended last week’s post in a rather bleak place. In continuation, I wanted to share a post on Facebook that I saw and shared once, but I had no idea if I would be able to find it again. It showed up as a “Facebook memory” …
Original post from March 28, 2021 On the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah), I took it upon myself to write a weekly post about a “new and ancient story”, about the animist worldview and an unconventional approach to economics and human nature. I encounter this perspective from multiple sources in English, but rarely in …
Original post from March 20, 2021 Spring is at its sweet peak, no longer so cold, but the mornings are still refreshing, the ground is still wet, and everything is green. It’s not by chance that the major Jewish holidays are around the equinoxes, when we long to spend as much time outside as …
Original post March 13, 2021 I started writing these posts because my perspective has been enriched and affirmed by myriad authors accessible to me as a native English speaker, and I wanted to share their perspectives with locals for whom reading English is even more of a hurdle than reading Hebrew is for me. …
Original post from 27.2.21 How does change occur on a collective, cultural level? And how can I best contribute? Should I work at a systemic level? Work on myself on a personal level? Last week, I wrote “We live the world into being.” We participate in creating our world by how we live. …
Original post from Feb 20, 2021 So far, I’ve been writing about the need to recognize our living world as alive and of value, and to learn to listen to the other than human beings who share it – because I believe that this is the way to a world that is …
Original post from Feb 13, 2021 I’ve been writing about listening to trees and plants and places and all kinds of creatures, and even artifacts – and I assume that to most western ears this sounds like projection at best and hallucination at worst. Obviously we can insist that all sorts of things we …
Original post from Feb 6, 2021 As I mentioned at the beginning, we are heterotrophs, not autotrophs. This means we are not able to create the nourishment we need from sunlight, so we must eat other creatures in order to live. Yes, that means we have to eat our wild relatives (or parts of …
