Michael Sales
Ray Elman: Anthropocene de Jour!
Anthropoceans are inquisitive. While rigid religiosity is doing everything it can to oversimplify our ever-unfolding multidimensionality...
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ADVENTURES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
It is said that you don’t know what you’re feeling until it has a name. Anthropocene is a word that defines our time. This is the Age of Humanity. Ours is an ever-increasingly anxious era. Plagues and calamities abound. Technologies of all sorts are advancing at an exponential rate. > read more
Michael Sales
- Nov 7
- 2 min
Ray Elman: Anthropocene de Jour!
Anthropoceans are inquisitive. While rigid religiosity is doing everything it can to oversimplify our ever-unfolding multidimensionality...
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Michael Sales
- Nov 7
- 1 min
Music 'Cene
Nature's Way by Spirit Brian Dobson’s comment on YouTube remains relevant: "I saw a Spirit concert right after this song came out. When...
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Michael Sales
- Nov 7
- 8 min
Anomalies, Threat, Nonconformity, and Change: Is a New Science Emerging?
The Anthropocene is a shaky ride. Many belongings will shift during this wobbly flight. Are we on automatic pilot toward an, as yet...
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Michael Sales
- Sep 9
- 2 min
Ian Bremmer: Anthropocean de Jour!
Ian Arthur Bremmer (born November 12, 1969) is an American internationalist trained in political science. He is the founder and president...
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Michael Sales
- Sep 9
- 10 min
Who Is An Anthropocean?
We Anthropoceans are pilgrims setting out on a non-linear, Escheresque highway. Anthropocene is the term used to describe the Age of...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 3
- 17 min
Learning, Localism and Love in the Anthropocene
Localism versus Globalism in the Anthropocene I spend time in Collier County, Florida. Collier County is Deep Red. Collier is home to the...
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Michael Sales
- Mar 23
- 10 min
Capitalism, Communitarianism, Contradictions and Cosmic Consciousness
Capitalism: A system that incentivizes productivity, transactional relationships, competition, efficiency, and consumption...
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Michael Sales
- Jan 27
- 7 min
Teach Your Parents Well
Most, maybe all, local school boards or committees hold regular open meetings in which the public can speak near the opening of the...
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Michael Sales
- Jan 3
- 1 min
The Anthropocene: zestful people vs automatons?!
Will the Anthropocene be an era of ever greater conformity or ever greater individual expressiveness? I am rooting for Lloyd Price's...
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Michael Sales
- Dec 29, 2022
- 1 min
The Security and Sustainability Guide: A Compass for the Anthropocene
This video discusses the Anthropocene, the Age of Humanity, a new geological era that began about 200 years ago. Most geological eras...
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Michael Sales
- Dec 29, 2022
- 8 min
Interoperability Creates Hope
The past is beating the dickens out of future Dr. Michael E. Mann made a fundamental contribution to the "Observed Climate Variability...
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Michael Sales
- Nov 2, 2022
- 6 min
Octaves, Plagues and Progress
I started smoking in 1955 when I was 11. By the time I was 26, I had about a two-pack-a-day habit. My dad was my hero. He went through...
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Michael Sales
- Oct 10, 2022
- 6 min
A New Paradigm
Last year, I sustained a back injury. It immobilized me for about a week. I saw my chiropractor, who’s helped me with issues before. He...
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Michael Sales
- Sep 22, 2022
- 10 min
Replace the Aristocracy with the Anthrocracy
The death of Elizabeth has gotten me to think about the validity of aristocracy continuing to exist as we move deeper into the era where...
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Michael Sales
- Sep 4, 2022
- 6 min
An Environmental Dictatorship Is Closer Than You Think
War and Civil Liberties Don't Mix Writing in the December 20, 2021 edition of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, security analyst Arnaud...
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Michael Sales
- Aug 28, 2022
- 3 min
American Fascism Poses a Threat to the Anthropocene
Given the calamitous outcome of fascism in the countries where it’s been fully implemented (e.g., Italy and Germany in WW II), Americans...
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Michael Sales
- Aug 28, 2022
- 6 min
I Missed the Vroom!
Starting in 1995, I’ve wanted to purchase an all-electric vehicle. That’s when I first became aware of the work of Stan Ovshinsky....
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Michael Sales
- Aug 18, 2022
- 4 min
“Look, The Reality Is…It’s Inevitable”
My mind tends to cringe when people say this to me. It is a statement that is usually/almost always delivered in conjunction with the...
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Michael Sales
- Aug 11, 2022
- 6 min
Respect Public School Educators
I Don't Get No Respect" - Rodney Dangerfield I like my dentist and my chiropractor. Sometimes their treatments can be quite painful. I...
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Michael Sales
- Aug 3, 2022
- 7 min
The Lonely Liar
In his defense of the British soldiers who fired on and killed eight colonists during “The Boston Massacre,” John Adams said: Facts are...
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Michael Sales
- Jul 29, 2022
- 5 min
Used to Be Hunted as Prey
“It wasn’t that long ago that we used to hunt them as prey.” An urbane and well-educated 70-year-old white man I know said this to me...
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Michael Sales
- Jul 21, 2022
- 4 min
What is Saving the World Worth to You?
A couple of days before England reported the highest temperatures in its recorded history (7/19/22), a New York Times/Siena poll...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 26, 2022
- 1 min
Welcome to the Anthropocene...
Here we are, citizens of the Anthropocene, trying to figure this all out. The big question, of course, is "will there be time"? Watch me...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 25, 2022
- 2 min
Anthropocene: A Word That Defines Our Time
It is said that you don't know what you’re feeling until it has a name. Ours is an ever-increasingly anxious era. Plagues and calamities...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 24, 2022
- 3 min
Tech in the 'Cene: Robotics
I was recently served by a robot at Brooks’ Burgers in Naples, Florida. It wasn’t quite as spiffy as this one, but it was moving toward a...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 19, 2022
- 2 min
Buckminster Fuller Archive
I have been reading and studying Bucky Fuller’s work since 1968. The breadth and depth of his genius and the integrity of his character...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 19, 2022
- 1 min
The Zombie Named Dixie
White supremacy is the Confederacy's blazingly debilitating hangover. Let's find a cure! Racial and ethnic discrimination and hatred are,...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 19, 2022
- 6 min
A Simple Twist of Fate
A multiplicity of alternative futures is wrapped up in every moment of the present. Strong trends create a sense of inevitability...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 18, 2022
- 23 min
Leading Organizations in the Field of Alternative Energy
This report also publishes soon in the Security and Sustainability Guide. I believe that the Guide is one of the indispensable tools...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 17, 2022
- 1 min
Why Your Vote Matters
Recently, I posted this message for "Elders for Sound Democracy". This is the message of the moment, the urgent news that all of us...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 16, 2022
- 5 min
Elvis, Orgasm and Social Change
The Security and Sustainability Guide, at present, describes the activities of over 3,000 organizations that are dedicated in one way or...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 16, 2022
- 1 min
You Don't Own Me!
Leslie Gore’s megahit, “You Don’t Own Me,” has been viewed more than 60,000,000 times on YouTube. Here’s some of her advice many parents...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 16, 2022
- 4 min
Reflexivity
In addition to being a GOP boogie man and an anti-semitic dog whistle, George Soros, 92, is one of the world’s most successful investors....
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Michael Sales
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
Numbers Too Big To Ignore
The continued assault on Women's Rights leaves many questions... Sexual behavior, in general, and the sexual behavior of women, in...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
The Courage of Volodymyre Zelenskyy
The unlikely hero... Volodymyre Zelenskyy is a modern day David facing an brutal and amoral Goliath. He's established a new standard for...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
Seeing And Improving The Anthropocene
This video - a recording of a presentation and discussion of the Anthropocene for Security and Sustainability Guide - provides a good...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 13, 2022
- 4 min
Let's Talk About Guns
Not just for war anymore...assault rifles deny the human right...to LIVE.
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Michael Sales
- Jun 12, 2022
- 1 min
Will Evil Triumph in The Anthropocene?
Will he or won't he? Like Putin, Trump is unadulterated evil. Not to his supporters, of course, but to anyone who’s paying attention to...
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Michael Sales
- Jun 1, 2022
- 6 min
Examining The Emerald Tablet of Hermes
To survive and thrive in the Anthropocene, humanity must develop a higher level of consciousness. If we proceed as we have since the...
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Michael Sales
- Apr 24, 2022
- 1 min
A Talk in the Park
I gave a talk about the Security and Sustainability Guide at an Earth Day celebration in April. This clip starts mid-sentence. I had just...