by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Meditations on ChatGHB Back in my BurningMan days, I had a lot of friends who used the drug GHB, gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a central nervous system depressant with limited medical uses, which as a party drug can lead to loss of inhibition, impaired judgment, memory gaps,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 7, 2026 | agnotology, beyond liberalism, collapsology, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, fake loops, folly, Normal is Over, Oil Barons, parasitism, Verschlimmbessern
Democracy is not “under threat.” It is being abandoned. The U.S. is sliding toward dictatorship.Europe is following closely behind.Much of the “liberal West” is choosing appeasement over resistance. This is not a sudden crisis. It is the predictable outcome of a...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 5, 2026 | CDoH, Industrial Epidemics
Planetary health is not being undermined by abstract “human activity” but by specific, organized commercial strategies that systematically convert profit-seeking into ecological breakdown. The commercial determinants of health name this upstream layer of causation:...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 26, 2025 | Biomimicry, Biophilia, Climate Change, collapsology, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Greenwashing, permaculture, philosophy of science, Systems thinking
The images of these November 2025 floods in South East Asia show so starkly the total waste of whatever reasoning allows us to continue global warming. The economy isn’t getting better. People aren’t getting healthier or happier. We are trashing our planet...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 24, 2025 | animals, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Climate Change, conservation, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Political Theory, Naturverlassenheit, parasitism, philosophy of science, Semiocide
Introduction: The Paradox of Fear and Death in Contemporary Japan In 2023, Japan witnessed an unprecedented 219 bear attacks, resulting in six human fatalities. The media response was immediate and visceral—front-page stories, emergency government meetings, and calls...