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decline of industrial civilization

The Suicide of the American Left

December 15, 2020August 6, 2015 by John Michael Greer

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.

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An Affirming Flame

December 15, 2020June 18, 2015 by John Michael Greer

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

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The Era of Dissolution

December 15, 2020June 11, 2015 by John Michael Greer

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.

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The Era of Response

December 15, 2020May 28, 2015 by John Michael Greer

The third stage of the process of collapse, following what I’ve called the eras of pretense and impact, is the era of response

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The Era of Impact

December 15, 2020May 21, 2015 by John Michael Greer

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…

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The Whisper of the Shutoff Valve

December 15, 2020May 7, 2015 by John Michael Greer

Meanwhile,in Detroit and Baltimore, tens of thousands of residents are in the process of losing their access to water and electricity.

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The Death of the Internet: A Pre-Mortem

December 15, 2020April 30, 2015 by John Michael Greer

There was, as it happened, a small problem with the 2707, a problem it shared with all the other SST projects; it made no economic sense at all. 

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Dark Age America: The Fragmentation of Technology

December 15, 2020December 4, 2014 by John Michael Greer

It was probably inevitable that last week’s discussion of the way that contemporary science is offering itself up as a sacrifice on the altar of corporate greed and institutional arrogance would field me a flurry of responses that insisted that I must hate science.

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A Pink Slip for the Progress Fairy

December 15, 2020October 23, 2014 by John Michael Greer

…I’m going to spend this week’s post summarizing the the decline and fall of industrial civilization.

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Dark Age America: The Hour of the Knife

December 15, 2020October 16, 2014 by John Michael Greer

The disintegration of social hierarchies, the senility of ruling elites, and the fossilization of institutions all lead to the hour of the knife…

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Review: A History of the Future by James Kunstler

December 15, 2020August 18, 2014 by Frank Kaminski

In the category of thrilling fiction about our post-industrial future, James Howard Kunstler’s World Made By Hand novels have no equal.

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Bright Were The Halls Then

December 15, 2020July 10, 2014 by John Michael Greer

Arnold Toynbee, whose magisterial writings on history have been a recurring source of inspiration for this blog, has pointed out an intriguing difference between the way civilizations rise and the way they fall.

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