Escaping the Tragic Dialectics of Progress
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Peter Critchley
Apr 5, 20236 min read
Posthumanism as a housing for the new serfdom
About four or five years ago Arran Gare wrote to me. "Dear Peter Critchley I have recently realized that we have very similar interests...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 21, 202346 min read
Greta Thunberg as “Autistic Climate Justice Activist.”
Thunberg as an “Autistic Climate Justice Activist.” I take an interest in the public perceptions of autism following in the trail of the...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 1, 202226 min read
The War on the Psyche
The War on the Psyche Against the Climate of Fear I should like to write on the external manipulation of the emotions through fear which...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 16, 202249 min read
The Climate Activism I Support
The Climate Activism I Support I have published extensive criticisms of climate campaigning and of environmentalist politics over the...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 31, 202213 min read
It is time for a Lewis Mumford Revival
It is time for a Lewis Mumford Revival "Today, it’s time for a Lewis Mumford Revival. Many people are experiencing the present moment as...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 7, 202212 min read
City Studies
City Studies A guide to my writings on the city and the urban environment. I supply links to my works in this field, with abstracts and...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 6, 202249 min read
An Integral Ecology - Ecological Writings
An Integral Ecology - Ecological Writings I will begin with a message sent to me by process philosopher Arran Gare: Dear Peter Critchley,...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 1, 20225 min read
Grave New World
Aldous Huxley issued this statement as a warning; the technocrats amongst us take it as a programme to be enacted. This is what one wrote...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 23, 202246 min read
Technocracy is not Socialism
Technocracy is not Socialism It’s soul-destroying for me to record that this meme has received 15 thousand likes on FB. I have explained...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 8, 20222 min read
When Truths are Lies
It is well-nigh certain that when someone refuses to answer a question and ducks a challenge that that person is peddling a lie and...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 7, 202228 min read
Excommunication
Excommunication from the Ecomentalist Cult I was commenting on a green "friends’" post when I found that my comments had been removed, as...
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Peter Critchley
May 26, 202268 min read
BUILDING, DWELLING, AND BEING
BUILDING, DWELLING, AND BEING To Build a Home This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 20, 20226 min read
Inner Growth as against External Force
I shall begin with this quote from Lewis Mumford in 1964 “I would not belittle, still less deny, the many admirable products this...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 14, 202229 min read
When Naturalism Becomes an Inhumanism
Naturalism as an Inhumanism This essay consists of thoughts and observations incited by the reaction the following article inspired: What...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 14, 202221 min read
The Environmental Problem is Political, and so is the solution.
The Problem is Political, and so is the solution. I would like to comment on this article: Scientists call for a moratorium on climate...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 10, 202240 min read
Skepticism vs the new idolatry
I see a lot of Vikings on Facebook and Twitter, armed to the teeth with technology and warring daily on their keyboards. They are more...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 31, 20218 min read
Leadership
Leadership I saw this meme on the Greenpeace FB site. I let them know what I thought of it in no uncertain terms and unliked and...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 31, 202113 min read
The Best of People
The Best of People Yesterday I exchanged unpleasantries with someone who holds that “the best people can do in a crisis is panic buy...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 30, 202119 min read
Don't Wake Up
Don’t Wake Up I’ve been hearing people say “wake up” for too many years now. If that kind of ‘appeal’ didn’t work way back when, then the...
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