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Society As Platform — A New Frontier in Complexity Science
Society As Platform — A New Frontier in Complexity Science Cities are profoundly complex incarnations of cultural evolution. Image Credit: Vincent Laforet Humanity is now confronted with new challenges unlike anything we have experienced before. Our evolved history as a species has not prepared us for what is happening now. It is time to start seeing culture as […]
The Real Difference Between Left & Right
The Real Difference Between Left & Right QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You have worked with politicians worldwide and both sides. What is your opinion of the politics that has emerged post-Great Depression? LM ANSWER: The major difference between the socialism supported by the Democrats/Labour in Western Society is that to them the individual has no value, it […]
Our Economy Is Failing Our Society
Our Economy Is Failing Our Society If we want to extend the opportunities for positive social roles to everyone, we have to change the way money is created and distributed in our economy. One of the most unrecognized dynamics of our era is the structural dependence of our society on our economy. One set of […]
Rulers, ‘Foolers,’ and Shooters: They’re Closing the Cage in Plain Sight
Rulers, ‘Foolers,’ and Shooters: They’re Closing the Cage in Plain Sight A picture that has been around awhile depicts Homo sapiens society at its finest…as it truly is. There are four “tiers,” so to speak, with the politicians, royalty, and rulers occupying the uppermost level, followed by the clergymen and religious swamis on tier two, […]
How To Recognize When Your Society Is Suffering A Dramatic Decline
How To Recognize When Your Society Is Suffering A Dramatic Decline When historians and analysts look at the factors surrounding the collapse of a society, they often focus on the larger events and indicators — the moments of infamy. However, I think it’s important to consider the reality that large scale societal decline is built […]
The Core
The Core Jerome Liebling May Day Union Square Park New York City 1948Dr. D. peels the American political onion to get down to what it’s all about. I’m impressed. He explains America better than just about anyone. Turns out, there ain’t much left. So yeah, what happened? Dr. D: The news cycle runs so frenetically […]
Sarah Woods on imagination and “the crisis of what comes next”.
Sarah Woods on imagination and “the crisis of what comes next”. If it is true that we are living through a time in which our collective imagination is increasingly devalued and undernourished, what might be the role of story in that, and how might story be part of the remedy? There are few better people […]
Ruin is forever (revisited): Why your death isn’t as bad as that of all humankind
Ruin is forever (revisited): Why your death isn’t as bad as that of all humankind It should be obvious that the death of an individual human being isn’t as bad as the death of all humankind. But that’s only true if you accept the following premise laid out by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his upcoming […]
The good life or the ballot? Both you say? I say the good life first, the ballot second.
The good life or the ballot? Both you say? I say the good life first, the ballot second. We have reached a pivotal moment. I think we can be certain that governments and other powers, such as corporations and their promotional arms, such as the BBC, are set on destruction. The powers have made no […]
Do we have the wrong model of human nature?
Do we have the wrong model of human nature? Are we wrong to believe that competitiveness must and always will be the central animating principle of human action? Media studies scholar Michael Karlberg thinks so. In fact, he believes that another animating principle, mutualism, is both central to human interaction and necessary to aid human […]
Catalan Independence: Why The Collective Hates It When People Walk Away
Catalan Independence: Why The Collective Hates It When People Walk Away I have written many times in the past about the singular conflict at the core of most human crises and disasters, a conflict that sabotages human endeavor and retards critical thought. This conflict not only stems from social interaction, it also exists within the […]
The Revolutionary Civilizational Paradigm Eco Villages
THE REVOLUTIONARY CIVILIZATIONAL PARADIGM ECO VILLAGES The vast majority of people in the world no longer live in any sort of human settlement that could be considered a village. Rather, the increased urbanization of our species and the displacement of rural communities has led to a collection of isolated individuals who have very little relationship […]
Beware of the “dark side” of humanity during any collapse
Beware of the “dark side” of humanity during any collapse While there have been countless books, movies and television shows about life after some type of apocalyptic event, chances are none of us will ever actually be forced to experience what its like trying to rebuild society from the ground up. More than likely, the […]
Joseph Tainter: The Collapse Of Complex Societies
Joseph Tainter: The Collapse Of Complex Societies What history predicts about our future prospects By popular demand, we welcome Joseph Tainter, USU professor and author of The Collapse Of Complex Societies (free book download here). Dr. Tainter sees many of the same unsustainable risks the PeakProsperity.com audience focuses on — an overleveraged economy, declining net energy per […]
Debt-Based Money Corrodes Society
Debt-Based Money Corrodes Society We open today’s reckoning with a hypothesis: The current monetary system debauches the culture. Long-suffering readers are familiar with our… diminished regard for paper money. Paper money — or digital money nowadays — is the great bogeyman of the boom/bust cycle. It inflates bubbles of every model and make. Meanwhile, paper […]
