By John Michael Greer, Ecosophia
To my mind, one of the main sources of collective stupidity in modern American society is our pervasive bad habit of short-term thinking. It’s embarrassingly rare for anyone in American public life to stop and say aloud, “Hold it. What’s going to happen if we keep on doing this for more than a few more years?”
By Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's legacy
We know very little about Queen Boudica of the Iceni (20 AD (?) - 61 AD) and most of what we know is probably deformed by Roman propaganda. But we may still be able to put together the main elements of her story and how it was that she almost threw the mighty Roman Legions out of Britain.
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
In a time of such ferment, most socio-political forecasts are foolhardy. However, I'll venture one: the least likely outcome for America is a return to the liberal, secular, consumerist order that characterized the post-WWII decades.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
The conventional wisdom of our era insists that modern industrial society can’t possibly undergo the same life cycle of rise and fall as every other civilization in history; no, no, there’s got to be some unique future awaiting us—uniquely splendid or uniquely horrible, it doesn’t even seem to matter that much, so long as it’s unique.
By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen, From Filmers to Farmers
The transgender restroom debate is a red herring, whose solution lies in the question affecting all of us: "What do we do with our effluents as industrial civilization collapses?"
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
If the best you can offer the voters is a choice between what they have now and something worse, and what they have now is already pretty wretched, you’re not likely to get much traction.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
According to an assortment of recent news stories, this Thursday, June 18, is the make-or-break date by which a compromise has to be reached between Greece and the EU if a Greek default, with the ensuing risk of a potential Greek exit from the Eurozone, is to be avoided
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
I suppose you could call the era of dissolution the Rodney Dangerfield of collapse, though it’s not so much that it gets no respect; it generally doesn’t even get discussed.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
The third stage of the process of collapse, following what I’ve called the eras of pretense and impact, is the era of response
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
The era of impact is the point at which it becomes clear to most people that something has gone wrong with the most basic narratives of a society...