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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLV–Planetary Boundaries, Narrative Management, and Technology
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLV October 23, 2023 Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Planetary Boundaries, Narrative Management, and Technology As I continue to work on Part 4 of my multipart Contemplation regarding energy blindness (see: Part 1 Medium, Part 2 Medium, Part 3 Blog Medium), I offer a handful of recent comments I shared on a […]
The System Isn’t Designed to Help You
The System Isn’t Designed to Help You If climate change doesn’t kill you, it will bankrupt you. It’s been about two months since the Lahaina fire, and the long term nature of their recovery is just starting to set in — for some at least. I know from first-hand experience that it takes months for […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XV–Finite Energy, ‘Renewables’, and the Ruling Elite
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XV May 21, 2021 Rome, Italy (1984) Photo by author Finite Energy, ‘Renewables’, and the Ruling Elite Energy. It’s at the core of everything we do. Everything. Yet we take it for granted and rarely think about it and what the finiteness of our various energy sources means for us. As Gail Tverberg […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh X–Who Do Representative Governments Actually Represent?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh X April 29, 2021 Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Who Do Representative Governments Actually Represent? Circumstances have kept me sidetracked from writing for a few months. As life has settled a bit, although the spring weather keeps me busy working in the food garden, I felt it time to post […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IX–Hear, Speak, See No Evil: Sociopolitical Collapse
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IX November 7, 2020 Chichen Itza, Mexico (1986) photo by author Hear, Speak, See No Evil: Sociopolitical Collapse Once more a comment posted in the Tyee in response to ongoing ‘debate’ with others in regard to the 2020 U.S. presidential election and some of the accusations of irregularities surrounding the process. While not […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh III; Grieving: There Are No ‘Solutions’ to Overshoot
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh III August 14, 2020 Athens, Greece (1993) Photo by author Grieving: There Are No ‘Solutions’ to Overshoot My comment posted on The Tyee in response to an article highlighting the increased occurrence of earthquakes as a result of hydraulic fracturing by the oil and gas industry in an area of British Columbia, Canada, […]
Steps to World Rule: First, Destroy Humanity
Steps to World Rule: First, Destroy Humanity It has always been astounding to me that people think for even a second that their government makes decisions to help the people—that has never been the case. If a government’s decision helps anyone it is always an after effect…or an afterthought or a collateral unintended benefit. The primary intent […]
Richest 1% begin eyeing up all the stuff you still own
Richest 1% begin eyeing up all the stuff you still own The richest 1% of people on the planet have started looking at the stuff you’ve been allowed to keep, according to sources this morning. After officially managing to own half of all the world’s wealth, the top 1% said that this meant there was still […]
World Economic Fuck’em
World Economic Fuck’em Nothing more than an unelected globalist government slowly emerging behind the curtains, eager to abscond with your rights and tell you how to live. Really…nothing to see here. Among the many wretched, slimy and odious things that are increasingly giving me the creeps as the sands of my life’s hourglass continue to […]
“A New System” – Inside the Davos Summit 2023WEF conference looks set to focus on what the globalist elite can learn from the failures of their “pandemic” narrative.
“A New System” – Inside the Davos Summit 2023 WEF conference looks set to focus on what the globalist elite can learn from the failures of their “pandemic” narrative. The World Economic Forum’s annual meet-up kicks off tomorrow. Politicians, corporate giants, “philanthropists” and all manner of elite monstrosities gather for a weekend of telling each […]
The Four Stages of Societal Collapse and Thiel’s Libertarian Challenge
The Four Stages of Societal Collapse and Thiel’s Libertarian Challenge “This is what will happen in the United States if you allow all the[se] schmucks to promise all kinds of goodies and paradise on earth which will bring the country to crisis” Yuri Bezmenov Rewatching this video of a defector from the Soviet Union in […]
Finding a place to take a stand
Finding a place to take a stand Mapping regions bio and cultural David McCloskey’s recently completed mapping of regions around the Salish Sea. Regions in a time of breakdown The Raven is increasingly focusing on the concept of regionalism, the idea that, as urbanist Lewis Mumford put forward many years ago, there is a “regional framework […]
Regardless of Who’s Elected, Imperial Corruption Rules the Nation
Regardless of Who’s Elected, Imperial Corruption Rules the Nation But in the meantime, enjoy the political theatrics down on the sand-strewn floor of the Coliseum. While the much-touted differences between America’s political parties get obsessive, hysterical attention, the sameness of Imperial corruption, waste and squalor regardless of who’s in power gets little notice. Scrape away the […]
Who Is Really Spreading Misinformed Disinformation?
Who Is Really Spreading Misinformed Disinformation? Ne’er has there been more fertile ground that exemplifies how those in charge of the narrative are either (1) grossly incompetent, (2) saying what they need to simply to suit their own agenda, or (3) both – than the topics of Covid, inflation, Trump’s non-existent Russian collusion and Hunter […]
Our Capitalist Civilization’s Last Shot
Our Capitalist Civilization’s Last Shot …or how proposed solutions only deepen the problem What hole…? Bah, gotta keep on diggin’… Image credit: Dominik Vanyi via Unsplash For those of my readers who follow this blog for a while now it has probably become pretty much clear that this global capitalist high-tech industrial civilization is slowly over. […]
