Alinternet reflections

Waste and exploitation are intimately connected and contained within our cultural DNA. How do we imagine new, grassroots and decentralised ways of tackling them and discovering a better, fairer and more connected future?

How to stop being who you think you are and find your own path (spoiler alert: involves jumping)

How practicing kindness, rapport and gratitude can transform communication and change the world - one relationship at a time.

This blog examines the relationship between linguistics and systems of memory, including schema (gestalt) building via language; Theory of Mind (ToM) and its relationship to learning how to articulate and communicate at an early age; Semantic, Episodic and Procedural memory systems and the role of short vs long term memory. (All material sourced from University of Sydney Psychology Degree).

Take a little mud and expose the diamonds

A discompassionate tale of empathy

Why do we ask for less, and how do we live in a world of more?

Or the ravings of a questioning mind?

In this podcast I discuss the reasons for and traditions in psychology over the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries. Are our current knowledge paradigms still relevant or just relentless white noise?

Well, are we?

A short story examining the transmission of toxic masculinity down through generations and how this can shape and break lives.

What can Japan's decision to leave the International Whaling Commission in 2018 tell us about the state of international environmental politics, and how could the solution lie in increased localisation?

A short story written in 2005 about what the social implications would be of discovering the secret to immortality. Would it be just another weapon of class division? Themes of class struggle, religion, relationships, economics and environmental ethics are all explored in this short feature article style vignette.

Should materialism be the end-goal of humanity? A simple solution to complex problems: a simple life.

Why do we do it, and what's the point of a hero anyway?

It's joys, it's impacts, mental health, crime, it's history in Australian society and whether a criminalisation or harm minimisation approach work best for regulating its use in society.

Ramblings on the breaking up of communities and rise of industry; and the impact that both these forces have had on individual potential and values.

My life since 2011 has been rocked and defined by climate change and a growing awareness of the challenges that face all human societies. My personal journey involves starting degrees in Communications, Psychology, and the Environment, and finding first psychosis and then clarity.

How does language shape thought? The shape of the book; orality vs literacy; jargon (standardisation of language) vs meaning-making (and use of rhetoric); and how their mastery enables deep learning and brings mindfulness are all explored in this series of short essays.

Carbon emissions, deforestation, plastic waste. What follows is a collation of international environmental law essays which examine how the composition of state-based economies frame a collective inability to solve global 'wicked' problems. The beginnings of an examination of how use-based (instead of materials-based) economies could bear the solution.

An analysis of Steffen et al's paradigm shifting 'Planetary Boundaries' framework, first published in 2015. What does it mean for Earth, how does it communicate this message and is it already too late for change?

For whatever you take control of, takes control of you.

Could it be contained in an app? Is there a different way for society to share knowledge and gain skills then being forced through a series of institutions at great financial and time-based cost? I have an idea, and I think it's a good one.

What could our collective future look like? How do we get there? My 2022 Master's thesis seeks to tackle these questions by facilitating a spectrum of different people with different backgrounds and perspectives to collectively daydream a new way of existing.

In 2019 Oil Giant Equinor got approval to begin drilling the Great Australian Bight - one of the last pristine marine ecosystems on Earth. This was despite overwhelming opposition from people-powered protests and NGOs. This audio-essay examines the stakeholders, timelines and outcomes of this case - and looks at solutions in how we can protect our precious ecosystems from further future destructio...