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Owl & Ibis Slideshows Now Available

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Previous Owl & Ibis Slideshows and Documents For the most current listing of slideshows and documents go to the O&I Main Page (click here ), then click on the three-bar icon at the upper left.  ∞ The Dark Mountain Project, Full Slideshow , Jim Lassiter      Part I ;  Part II ;  Part III ;  Part IV ;  Part V ;  Part VI ;  Part VII ;  Part VIII ;  Part IX ∞ Twilight of American Sanity, An Interpretive Synopsis, John Cruickshank ∞ Better Angels of Our Nature, A Synopsis, Steve Yothment ∞ Civics and Character Education in Schools, Susan Naschke ∞ Activism in Trumpland - Why Bother?, Marcia Hendershot ∞ Fake News, John Cruickshank ∞ Truth - Universal, Social, Personal, Jim Lassiter ∞ David Hume – Themes, Arguments, Ideas, Richard Berry ∞ Enlightenment Ideals: Wrong or Inevitable?, Jim Lassiter ∞ Age of Enlightenment, Jim Lassiter ∞ Death & Dying Well, Jim Lassiter ∞ Masaabaland, Uganda, Jim & Immy Rose Lassiter ∞ America and Guns, Viviana Golden

Unpacking The Dark Mountain Project

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At the February 13, 2018 Owl & Ibis meeting the various premises and arguments of the Dark Mountain Project were presented and discussed. The full PowerPoint slide presentation is available here:  DMP O&I Slide Show . Or, for faster, easier downloading here's the slide show in nine parts: Part I ;  Part II ;  Part III ;  Part IV ;  Part V ;  Part VI ;  Part VII ;  Part VIII ;  Part IX It was agreed that to better determine if the DMP premises are true and decide if its arguments are acceptable, more information was needed on current and projected future global conditions in these areas: Economics Environmentalism The Humanities Politics The Natural Sciences and Technology The Social Sciences Attendees chose Environmentalism, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences as the first areas to study, present to the group, and discuss. Economics, Politics and the Natural Sciences and Technology will be addressed after these. If, as DMP insists, the nar