Culture & Behavior

History, meaning, and choice

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New Year’s Eve reflections by the Archdruid on the way that so many attempts to make sense of the predicament of industrial society start by accepting the modern world’s belief in its own historical importance. Does an alternative view provide a more useful basis for constructive action?

The moment of darkness

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I am a father, and I want my daughter to have a decent life in a strange time. I am in my 30s now, but I knew five of my great-grandparents, all born in the 19th century, and my daughter, if she is lucky, may live to see the 22nd. Her life might span humanity’s most important decades, and before she is even an adult, the world could grow much more difficult – energy shortages, food shortages, economic collapses and a Malthusian crush. I want her to be able to realize what is happening, and not to be bewildered by a domino line of solitary unthinkables.