Category: Shrink Activism
HPS Axis Pirouette
March 15, 2018To soften the pressure of the increasingly dominant genetic profiles for greater human height, humanity at some point may opt to interfere in the cell signaling pathways that induce growth. One such pathway, the hypothalamic–pituitary axis, includes the secretion of growth hormone (GH) into the circulation and the subsequent stimulation of insulin-like…
Degrowth:Buddhist Economics
March 3, 2018Abundance Fantasies:Evangelical Carrots
February 11, 2018In our series on Abundance Fantasies we explore how we can activate our deeply rooted desire for abundance, codified within our language, our myths and religions, to initiate the desire to shrink. There’s an unmistakable relationship between fundamental human desire for abundance and how this desire…
Side-tunneling
January 28, 2018The Makhunik Ceiling
January 10, 2018Idolatry of Giantism
January 1, 2018Deaf Fish
December 12, 2017Transient Dwarfism of Soil Fauna
November 30, 2017Vechur A2 Milk
November 27, 2017From Model Organism to Spirit Animal
November 22, 2017Land Reclamation
November 5, 2017A Frog’s Patience
November 1, 2017Japanese Miniatures: Cat Maximisation
October 30, 2017Our series of Japanese Miniatures investigates the specific Japanese sensitivity for small as expressed in their love for things like bonsai, sushi, netsuke, and capsule hotels. Japan ‘knows’ things about shrinking that may help the human species embrace the desire for, or overcome hurdles to, becoming…
Cumulative Default Yielding Response
October 27, 2017People continue to grow taller despite the fact that physical dominance is no longer an evident evolutionary advantage and is not very cost-effective. Archaic biological systems have been replaced by confused growth-obsessed cultural values. Despite the evidence that in Western societies being tall continues to be positively…
Kuhnian Shift
October 24, 2017According to Thomas Kuhn when enough significant anomalies have accrued against a current paradigm, the scientific discipline is thrown into a state of crisis. During this crisis, new ideas, perhaps ones previously discarded, are tried. Eventually a new paradigm is formed, which gains its own new followers,…
Shrink Exercises: A01 to A07
October 15, 2017Studio of Suspended Disbelief
October 9, 2017Trans-species Psychology
September 23, 2017Trans-species psychology re-embeds humans within the larger matrix of the animal kingdom by erasing the notion that humans are substantively cognitively and emotionally different from other species. According to the ecologist/psychologist Gay A. Bradshaw, there is a common model of brain, mind and behaviour for humans and…