<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Villageblog &#187; Big Ideas</title>
	<atom:link href="http://villageblog.wordpress.com/category/big-ideas/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:11:01 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<cloud domain='villageblog.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/68234821242cd87a5298218b604a03be?s=96&#038;d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>Villageblog &#187; Big Ideas</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://villageblog.wordpress.com/osd.xml" title="Villageblog" />
		<item>
		<title>Thrivalism</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/thrivalism/</link>
		<comments>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/thrivalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crashology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://villageblog.wordpress.com/?p=222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know I will probably never visit the LATOC discussion board when looking for advice on how to handle the coming upheavel in our way of life and while guns-and-gold are doubtless getting a big look in at the moment, Ran is still dispensing his much calmer advice and generally soothing the troubled waters of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=222&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/thrivalism/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ecdc1eea2715bf7d5a1df41bc4b0ccb6?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Aaron</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Emotional Freedom Therapy</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/emotional-freedom-therapy/</link>
		<comments>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/emotional-freedom-therapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://villageblog.wordpress.com/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having spent a fair amount of time on this blog cataloguing the various ills of civilisation and speculating on the cause and the perpetuation of our collective sickness I was quite excited to discover something that has the potential to quite easily undo some of our internal damage.
The previous post about James De Meo&#8217;s theories [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=198&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/emotional-freedom-therapy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ecdc1eea2715bf7d5a1df41bc4b0ccb6?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Aaron</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Nice</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/nice/</link>
		<comments>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/nice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://villageblog.wordpress.com/?p=195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan linked to these excerpts of a book called Waking Up by Charles T Tart.  This quote nicely summarises a philosphy that has become more and more important to me over time.
Few of us may be in a position to have a decisive influence on world peace, but cultivation of our own inner resources [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=195&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/nice/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ecdc1eea2715bf7d5a1df41bc4b0ccb6?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Aaron</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Family Matters</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/family-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/family-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crashology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://villageblog.wordpress.com/?p=193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the part of the recent Rigorous Intuition post that I noticed most of all:
So this is my dilemma, and my paralysis. It&#8217;s not every day you get to spectate the real-time collapse of a planetary civilization and biosphere. (Or, I suppose I should say, I remember a time when it wasn&#8217;t.) But watching this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=193&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/family-matters/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ecdc1eea2715bf7d5a1df41bc4b0ccb6?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Aaron</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Doom, Gloom and Ka-boom!</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/doom-gloom-and-ka-boom/</link>
		<comments>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/doom-gloom-and-ka-boom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 10:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crashology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://villageblog.wordpress.com/?p=191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I posted a quote from a Bill Mollison interview that included this paragraph:
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you’ll get a philosopher. But I could never teach people to be philosophers &#8211; and if I did, you could never make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=191&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/doom-gloom-and-ka-boom/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ecdc1eea2715bf7d5a1df41bc4b0ccb6?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Aaron</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Suburbia DOA</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/suburbia-doa/</link>
		<comments>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/suburbia-doa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 10:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crashology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://villageblog.wordpress.com/?p=190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see a lot of people gleefully predicting the demise of suburbia &#8211; dependant as it is on the car for it&#8217;s full functioning, but I wonder where do we think all these people are going to go?
If overseas examples are anything to go by the first thing that happens (think Cuba and the Soviet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=190&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/suburbia-doa/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ecdc1eea2715bf7d5a1df41bc4b0ccb6?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Aaron</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Primitivist Theology</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/primitivist-theology/</link>
		<comments>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/primitivist-theology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://villageblog.wordpress.com/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I wondered at the lengths Ran went to in his recent essay to deal with issues of ideology and today he posted a comment which answers the question much better than my speculation did.
&#8230; the main reason I wrote the essay was to go into theoryland and get primitivists out. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=181&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/primitivist-theology/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ecdc1eea2715bf7d5a1df41bc4b0ccb6?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Aaron</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Stay Human</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/anti-ideology/</link>
		<comments>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/anti-ideology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/anti-ideology/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our task is to be human.
While that sentence may seem abusurdly obvious to some people, to me it feels like a reminder of something important that I forgot long, long ago.  I&#8217;m struggling with the old activist bash-people-over-the-head incarnation of myself and with some of the attitudes I met when I was in that  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=169&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/anti-ideology/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ecdc1eea2715bf7d5a1df41bc4b0ccb6?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Aaron</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Exit Conspiracy</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/exit-conspiracy/</link>
		<comments>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/exit-conspiracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dropping Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern life is rubbish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Reading]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/exit-conspiracy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This was supposed to be posted about a week ago when it would have been much more timely. On the better late than never theory, here it is, late;
Tim’s got a  post about stepping out of the conspiracy theory headspace and it’s got me  thinking about how much good judgment is missing in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=166&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/exit-conspiracy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ecdc1eea2715bf7d5a1df41bc4b0ccb6?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Aaron</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Healing</title>
		<link>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/healing/</link>
		<comments>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/healing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern life is rubbish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Reading]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/healing/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Coincidences between blogs are always interesting,  while I just wrote a piece called Climax Culture the Archdruid was writing one talking about Climax Community. We were of course coming at the issue from very different places and the respective articles don&#8217;t look that similar but we were both talking about a more successful way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=villageblog.wordpress.com&blog=1461092&post=163&subd=villageblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/healing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ecdc1eea2715bf7d5a1df41bc4b0ccb6?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Aaron</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>