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James Howard Kunstler: It’s Time To Be Honest With Ourselves

James Howard Kunstler: It’s Time To Be Honest With Ourselves The major systems our society relies on are failing The ever-eloquent James Howard Kunstler returns to our podcast this week to discuss the dangers of the ‘comprehensive dishonesty’ he observes in our culture today. We occupy ourselves with distractions (e.g., the fear du jour that our […]

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We Need A Social Revolution

wikimedia We Need A Social Revolution Our future depends on our willingness to fight for it In the conventional view, there are two kinds of revolutions: political and technological. Political revolutions may be peaceful or violent, and technological revolutions may transform civilizations gradually or rather abruptly—for example, revolutionary advances in the technology of warfare. In […]

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Signs Of Distress

Signs Of Distress The need to change is becoming more obvious than ever The world is edging closer to the final moments after which everything will be forever changed. Grand delusions, perpetuated over decades, will finally hit the limits of reality and collapse in on themselves. We’re over-budget and have eaten deeply into the principal […]

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Owning Yourself: Group-Think Vs Individualism

Owning Yourself: Group-Think Vs Individualism   In this day and age as the energies intensify, many of us are called to get out of our comfort zone, question consensus reality and the world we live in. We look for answers to deeper life questions, our individual purpose and role as we embark on the process […]

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Why Is Market Fundamentalism So Tenacious?

Why Is Market Fundamentalism So Tenacious? One of the great economists of the twentieth century had the misfortune of publishing his magnum opus, The Great Transformation, in 1944, months before the inauguration of a new era of postwar economic growth and consumer culture. Few people in the 1940s or 1950s wanted to hear piercing criticisms of […]

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What Progress Means

What Progress Means Last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report appears to have hit a nerve. That didn’t come as any sort of a surprise, admittedly.  It’s one thing to point out that going back to the simpler and less energy-intensive technologies of earlier eras could help extract us from the corner into which industrial society has […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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Olduvai II: Exodus
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