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How reacts a – well-known and active – corona denier when contracting Covid? He remains unapologetic. A Spiegel TV film portrays the man. “In the Covid ward of the Darmstadt Clinic,” the film begins, “by September 2021 there are already 12 patients, most of them unvaccinated. Senior physician Cihan Celik has been on duty since […]

How 2020 shook the global economy – Excerpts from the newly published book by Adam Tooze The Guardian published an excerpt from Adam Tooze’s new book, “Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy.” Tooze describes and reconstructs the phase since and through the outbreak of the pandemic in political, social and especially economic terms, very […]

Here is the fourth and last part of our translation of Daniel Schmachtenberger `s talk with David Fuller. At the end of the text there are further links to Schmachtenberger `s work. Daniel Schmachtenberger: When we think about the caterpillar to butterfly metamorphosis: Inside the chrysalis it ´s not a caterpillar or a butterfly, it […]

David Fuller:  That was my question – how do we give people a sense of that connection beyond themselves, to give them a felt sense of that connection to the natural world and to what they depend on? Daniel Schmachtenberger: An important thing about homo sapiens, that is different than all the other species as far as […]

Democracies – and worse Daniel Schmachtenberger: We need new systems of governance.  If we think about how much we love the word „democracy“ and we love the word „democracy“ because it´s better than tyranny and it´s better than the other like really horrible systems that we´ve experienced at any scale. But when Winston Churchill said „democracy […]

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a futurist, evolutionary philosopher, strategist and social engineer. In this talk he addresses the social crisis that we are experiencing – it is a very inspiring view by considering the larger context of the process of our civilization. He offers a clear, open view of our human species and of nature on […]

Inspiring, beautiful and impressive documentaries We have recommended only one film so far: „Before the flood“, by Leonardo DiCaprio – because DiCaprio gathers countless facts and travels many places in the world where the effects of the climate crisis have long been obvious. Already the very beginning of the film, in which he talks about […]