The Era of Dissolution
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.
Tag: decline of industrial civilization
The Era of Response
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
The Era of Impact
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...
The Whisper of the Shutoff Valve
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
Meanwhile,in Detroit and Baltimore, tens of thousands of residents are in the process of losing their access to water and electricity.
The Death of the Internet: A Pre-Mortem
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
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.
Dark Age America: The Fragmentation of Technology
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
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.
A Pink Slip for the Progress Fairy
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
...I’m going to spend this week’s post summarizing the the decline and fall of industrial civilization.
Dark Age America: The Hour of the Knife
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
The disintegration of social hierarchies, the senility of ruling elites, and the fossilization of institutions all lead to the hour of the knife...
Review: A History of the Future by James Kunstler
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
In the category of thrilling fiction about our post-industrial future, James Howard Kunstler’s World Made By Hand novels have no equal.
Bright Were The Halls Then
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
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.