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Is There Something More Important Than Money?
Is There Something More Important Than Money? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You were named hedge fund manager of the year with the most amazing public track record which nobody has ever come close to matching. You have been named Analyst of the Year. I spoke to people in Australia where you managed a public fund for Deutsche Bank. They said […]
How to survive a global disaster: a handy guide
How to survive a global disaster: a handy guide Whether it’s a natural disaster, bioterrorist attack or pandemic, experts reckon society as we know it will collapse within 13 days of a catastrophic event. So what do you do next? Ubisoft’s role-playing shooter The Division wouldn’t be as much fun if players followed Nafeez Ahmed’s […]
How Do You Know When Your Society Is In The Midst Of Collapse?
How Do You Know When Your Society Is In The Midst Of Collapse? As economic turmoil worldwide becomes increasingly apparent, I have been receiving messages from readers expressing some concerns on the public “perception” of collapse. That is to say, there are questions on the average person’s concept of collapse versus the reality of collapse. […]
Impunity, Functional Equivalent of Genocide: Collapse of Social Institutions
Impunity, Functional Equivalent of Genocide: Collapse of Social Institutions The horrific refugee problem we see today, so reminiscent of population movements during World War II, next to the Holocaust itself in the historical annals of Crimes Against Humanity, and to which it was then related, remains in our times below the moral radar screen as […]
The Spectacle So Far
The Spectacle So Far Yes, there is such a thing as “the public,” a term that derives from the ancient Latin, populus (the people), via publicus (of the people), via old French, public — pertaining generally to the mass of adults dwelling in a polity, a society under (political) governance. In the USA, government is vested as […]
Collapse, Part 5: Things Fall Apart
Collapse, Part 5: Things Fall Apart It is impossible to wean an economy that relies on debt and leverage for its “growth” of excessive debt and leverage. As noted earlier in this series, collapse is not an event, it’s a process, a process we experience as things fall apart. The phrase famously appears in William Butler Yeats’ […]
Collapse, Part 2: The Nine Dynamics of Decay
Collapse, Part 2: The Nine Dynamics of Decay Rome didn’t fall so much as erode away. That’s the template for collapse. While collapse may be sudden, the decay that generated the collapse had been rotting away the foundation for years or decades. In distilling the vast literature on collapse into nine dynamics, I am drawing upon […]
The Era of Breakdown
The Era of Breakdown The fourth of the stages in the sequence of collapse we’ve been discussing is the era of breakdown. (For those who haven’t been keeping track, the first three phases are the eras of pretense, impact, and response; the final phase, which we’ll be discussing next week, is the era of dissolution.) […]
The Era of Response
The Era of Response The third stage of the process of collapse, following what I’ve called the eras of pretense and impact, is the era of response. It’s easy to misunderstand what this involves, because both of the previous eras have their own kinds of response to whatever is driving the collapse; it’s just that […]
US fall from virtuous republic to tragic-comic empire described perfectly by Roman historians
US fall from virtuous republic to tragic-comic empire described perfectly by Roman historians The ancient Greek historian, Polybius, celebrated the Roman republic of ~ 150 BC under its constitution with balance of powers among the Senate, two elected consuls, and the general citizens: “Such being the power that each part has of hampering the others or co-operating with them, their union […]
Opinion: How this debt-addicted world could go the way of the Mayans
Opinion: How this debt-addicted world could go the way of the Mayans Paying a high price for too many elites and their ‘frivolous cravings’ Getty Images Nowadays many countries’ social and political structure relies on debt-driven consumption and increasing levels of entitlements. Blame the policy makers. To drive economic growth, boost living standards, and manage growing […]
We can’t have resilience without justice
We can’t have resilience without justice Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. John Crawford III. Levar Jones. Their deaths — and those of too many others — illuminate the ghastly toll of racism and impunity. It’s a toll we can measure in lives lost, and in communities seared by violence. But here’s a casualty you might […]
TIGHTEN THOSE CHIN STRAPS FOLKS BECAUSE HERE COMES A RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY (RUD)
TIGHTEN THOSE CHIN STRAPS FOLKS BECAUSE HERE COMES A RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY (RUD) Please stick with this piece dear reader for it does not end on the same path from which it starts. Being a child of the 50’s and 60’s, it comes as no surprise to anyone from that era that I’m a bit […]
Mass Abductions in Mexico Reveal a Decaying State – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Mass Abductions in Mexico Reveal a Decaying State – SPIEGEL ONLINE. The close-up images show a handful of black teeth sifted out of leftover ash, and bits of charred bone picked from a landfill not far from Iguala. There are also shots of plastic bag scraps that washed up on the banks of Río San […]
