Instead of a longform essay, I thought I would make a little list of the automated information sources that I depend upon to escape the media hypnotized by advertising. Later I'll list some of the medical sites that send me daily news. Some are technical, meant for doctors and hard to interpret. Others are mediated by journalists. These below are generalist analysis and opinion.
I expect that there will be many sites like these and that some will urge attendance at rallies and conferences. I don't attend those and I question their usefulness. I intend to remain a sequestered think tank of one, working in print.
In the near-future I expect many institutional die-offs like the ones closing down churches, including accelerated withering of small towns, but it may come about because of simple infrastructure failure rather than imposed regulations. This will affect my life, esp. when the water and sewer fail. But I still don't subscribe to the "doomer" websites.
In the farther future I expect pandemic level die-offs of the American population, something like Russia's population shrinking due to alcoholism, despair, poor housing, bad food, and failure to govern. The electricity pylons and cross-continental pipelines are likely to persist in degenerate unmaintained form. Something like our bridges.
These organizations work against that possibility. They all send automated daily messages. I might add more.
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SAPIENS
Sapiens.org
In January 2016, we launched SAPIENS with a mission to bring anthropology—the study of being human—to the public, to make a difference in how people see themselves and the people around them. Our objective is to deepen your understanding of the human experience by exploring exciting, novel, thought-provoking, and unconventional ideas. Through news coverage, features, commentaries, reviews, photo essays, and much more, we work closely with anthropologists and journalists to craft intriguing and innovative ways of sharing the discipline with a worldwide audience
TERRIERMAN
Information on working terriers, dogs, natural history, hunting, and the environment, with occasional political commentary as I see fit. This web log is associated with the Terrierman.com web site.
PS: OZY.com (Short for Ozymandias) never puts me to sleep, esp. when it's Gene Robinson posting.
http://www.ozy.com/2016/the-trump-card/73982?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11122016&variable=ac8b58c42e681fdd9c96521328de923d
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Thanks Mary!
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