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The Fellowship of the Ring: ‘Bend Not Break’ Version

April 2, 2024

Recorded March 24 2024

Description

In this Frankly, Nate recasts his favorite book series, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, with some speculative “archetypes” of our human world grouped by various timelines. The eventual reduction in energy and material accessibility will likely alter the archetypes that we’re familiar with today – perhaps to become something not helpful to larger society. What categories of human archetypes in the future will have the potential to best influence their communities and the Earth? What will the most powerful among us choose when it comes to protecting their (monetary, temporary) wealth vs using it towards prosocial collective responses? Finally, and most importantly what archetypes will form a new Fellowship of humans to ‘bring the ring to Mordor’ during humanity’s ‘Bend not Break’ moment? Which archetype do you resonate with? Are there others?

Show Notes

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00:04 – Frankly 57

00:36 – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, LOTR Trilogy

02:22 – Optimal Foraging

02:57 – Money supply and income

03:38 – Energy Surplus

03:59 – Carbon Pulse

04:44 – Global North

04:52 – 60 to 70 devices plugged in

06:29 – Loss Aversion

06:58 – Patrick Knodel on TGS

07:18 – AI

07:20 – Big Data

07:28 – Cyborg

08:36 – George Floyd

09:36 – Star Trek, Lokai

12:10 – Global Supply Chain

13:00 – Carl Jung

17:38 – Overton Window

17:50 – Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Gaza

23:48 – David and Goliath

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens is the Executive Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF). Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians, and systems thinkers, ISEOF assembles roadmaps for understanding how human societies might adapt to lower-throughput lifestyles.

Nate hosts the podcast The Great Simplification, where he has conversations with experts in energy, ecology, government, technology, and the economy to provide a systemic view of the world around us.

After ten years in finance, Nate left Wall Street to study the interrelationships between energy, ecology, and economics—and the implications for human futures. He was the Managing Editor of The Oil Drum, one of the most respected websites for analysis and discussion of global energy supplies and implications of the upcoming energy transition.

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