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Are These the End Times?

July 19, 2023 by Richard Heinberg

Peter Turchin’s latest book, End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, is receiving glowing reviews. Its message is highly relevant to our collective understanding of the emerging global polycrisis and what needs to be done to minimize it.

Categories Environment, Society, Society featured Tags complexity, global polycrisis, polarization, social breakdown Leave a comment

Why Are Anger and Social Violence Increasing In America?

April 4, 2022 by Dick Rauscher

We humans use our minds to create the world we live in, so the better we understand how our minds work, the more successful we will be in creating the world we live in….and more importantly, the world we want to create.

Categories Society Tags American politics, building resilient societies, human evolution, social breakdown Leave a comment

The Collective Consciousness of Humanity Has Cancer: The Prognosis is Dire!

April 5, 2021April 5, 2021 by Dick Rauscher

The temperature of our planet is rising, and I’m not talking about global warming. I’m talking about the rising social anger temperature and its potential to create a social, civil, and economic collapse.

Categories Society, Society featured Tags collapse of industrial civilization, cultural stories, disconnection from nature, social breakdown Leave a comment

The Urban-Rural Divide More Pronounced Than Ever

June 5, 2018June 4, 2018 by Grace Olmstead

This remarkable growth in polarization leads the Times to ask an important question: are we sorting ourselves, increasingly moving to fit in with those in our “camp”? If not, how and why are the numbers becoming so extreme?

Categories Editor’s picks, Society, Society featured Tags American politics, rebuilding resilient communities, social breakdown Leave a comment

James Howard Kunstler: “We are living in a moment of unprecedented incoherence”

June 16, 2017 by Rob Hopkins

We’re suffering from the disappointment about the promises of progress and technology, and it’s not much more complicated than that. We have reason to feel that way. In fact I don’t believe in the techno utopia that a lot of people are trying to sell.

Categories Society Tags American politics, building resilient societies, social breakdown Leave a comment

The post-fact world and the need for a new consensus

December 15, 2020December 11, 2016 by Kurt Cobb

Debate is no longer a means to find the truth by testing ideas against the questions and criticisms of other, it is mostly propaganda designed to win no matter what the truth is.

Categories Society Tags American politics, Complex Societies, scientific method, social breakdown Leave a comment

Ferguson Rorschach

December 15, 2020November 25, 2014 by Brian Kaller

The violence, police-state rules, military occupation, censorship – it could absolutely happen in your neighbourhood next time, and most news reports didn’t appreciate that.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags building resilient communities, social breakdown Leave a comment

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