Where On The Titanic Would You Like Your Deck Chair, Ma’am?
Every human society without exception gives some members more say in making decisions than others.
decline and fall of industrial civilization
The End of Ordinary Politics
Archdruids may take vacations but politics never sleeps, and during the month that’s elapsed since the last post here on The Archdruid Report, quite a number of things relevant to this blog’s project have gone spinning past the startled eyes of those who pay attention to the US political scene.
The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Three: The End of the Dream
Cities are thus the Petri dishes in which civilizations ripen their ideas to maturity—and like Petri dishes, they do this by excluding contaminating influences.
The Era of Pretense
The decline and fall of a civilization isn’t a single event, or even a single linear process; it’s a complex fractal reality composed of many different events on many different scales in space and time.
Dark Age America: The Suicide of Science
Every human society likes to think that its core cultural and intellectual projects, whatever those happen to be, are the be-all and end-all of human existence.