“Since The Problem Could Not Be Solved By Scientific Methods, It Has Not Been Solved At All:” John Michael Greer

“The forces that will take the lead in the opening phases of the deindustrial age will be political, cultural and psychological, not scientific. (more…)

Guerrilla Comics: WHERE WE’LL BE BUYING OUR GASOLINE.

Interesting how this has gone- we may not have thought a huge decline in gasoline demand would be so early and obvious. Or leave such tidy relics. They’ve neatly left the sign- the building code must not have required its removal. Later (and in other environments), we imagine the derelict sites of gasoline stations may look rather different. What do you think?

WHY WE ARE WORRIED- Without Numbers Or Big Words

WHAT’S THIS?

We are here to have a general discussion about acute transformations. (more…)

THERE ARE NO PRIVATE ACTS: Ethics Cannot Be “Personal Choice”

Private Moral Questions?

Some of us have the idea that ethical matters are personal. That it is a tenet of “freedom” and “liberty” and “democracy” (more…)

The Monstrous Institution of Rumor: Robert Pogue Harrison

“We live in a world that traffics in rumors. From prophet to disciple, neighbor to neighbor, binding the living to the dead and the dead (more…)

No Apostle Will Look Out: Robert Pogue Harrison

“”The wasteland grows,” wrote Nietzche over a century ago, “Woe to him who harbors wastelands within.” But… such things are mirrors: if a monkey looks in no apostle will look out. (more…)