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 | Nov 19, 2025 | beyond liberalism, Climate Change, collapsology, duh, Energy, Environmental Justice, folly, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Semiocide, Systems thinking
Picture this: You run a business that makes you €64.7 billion over sixty years. Your operations cause over 1,600 earthquakes that damage almost 100,000 homes and traumatize an entire region. When the government finally shuts you down to protect citizens and the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 22, 2025 | agroecology, beyond liberalism, chemicals, Climate Change, Communication, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fragmentation, Greenwashing, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Plants, Public Health, Semiocide, Side-effects, Syndemics, Talks
Everyone loves flowers. They brighten our day. They remind us of the beauty of life, and they are ephemeral, a memento mori of sorts to reflect upon our own mortality. But in the past half-century, the presence of flowers has moved from local to global markets, from...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 2, 2025 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Communication, duh, Fragmentation, the real
In Günther Anders’ 1958 essay The Obsolescence of Privacy, he opens with the epigraph: ‘The world is not only delivered to the house’, the inverse is also true, ‘the house is delivered to the world’. It is perhaps no coincidence, that as Hannah Arendt’s...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 24, 2024 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Discursive Gap, philosophy of science, Systems thinking, the real
Overcoming Determinism Whether something is good or bad for us or others is not always immediately apparent. And it may change according to the situation. Which means that universal, timeless, generalizable rules for what is good or bad according to its essence will...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 4, 2024 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Decolonization, duh, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Public Health, Systems thinking, Verschlimmbessern
I get an email from Aporia Magazine titled “You’re probably a eugenicist” — provocatively suggesting that we all favor good genes, and that we, all-knowing moderns, imbued with science, know what good genes are. I take umbrage with Aporia for...
