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Old Age and Societal Decline
Old Age and Societal Decline People grow old and die. Civilizations eventually fail. For centuries amateur philosophers have used the former as a metaphor for the latter, leading to a few useful insights and just as many misleading generalizations. The comparison becomes more immediately interesting as our own civilization stumbles blindly toward collapse. While not […]
“The collapse of our civilization is not a political issue.” Really??
“The collapse of our civilization is not a political issue.” Really?? The cover article of New Scientist this week asks “Is Western civilization on the brink of collapse?” I’m glad they’re raising this question, but their discussion was extremely disappointing. First, as George Monbiot points out in a follow-up article, the article fails to distinguish between […]
Old Age and Societal Decline
Old Age and Societal Decline People grow old and die. Civilizations eventually fail. For centuries amateur philosophers have used the former as a metaphor for the latter, leading to a few useful insights and just as many misleading generalizations. The comparison becomes more immediately interesting as our own civilization stumbles blindly toward collapse. While not […]
How A North Korean Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Could Kill Millions And Turn America Into A Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
How A North Korean Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Could Kill Millions And Turn America Into A Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland This is why North Korea’s test of an intercontinental ballistic missile is so important. North Korea had test fired a total of 22 missiles so far this year, but this latest one showed that nobody on the globe […]
Taxes the Lynch-Pin of Civilization
Taxes the Lynch-Pin of Civilization QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong: I find it disheartening the more I try to advance my family to build a better future for them, the more I realize that the harder I work we do not really get ahead. I agree that taxes just keep moving higher and I am now looking […]
Cycle of Civilization
COMMENT: Interestingly enough, in Switzerland the -in majority- leftish and Pro-EU government has been trying to push Switzerland into EU for years as you’re aware of. Now the SVP is fighting against a new international contract, called “institutional agreement” which would give (amongst others) the EUGH the Supremacy Clause over Switzerland – end of Swiss direct […]
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity Jordan Osmond and Samuel Alexander Image from ‘A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity’ 2016On July 27 2015, I posted a 2-hour interview with Nicole Foss that was recorded when we were in Melbourne in April that year. The interview -though not the full two hours of course- was always meant to be part […]
Civilization Ebbs and Flows: You Remain
CIVILIZATION EBBS AND FLOWS: YOU REMAIN When I was planning my three Matrix collections, I made this note: “Civilizations ebb and flow, rise and fall, but the individual remains. He needs, under any and all circumstances, to keep two capacities intact: 1) reasoning, logic, analysis; and 2) imagination. These are the well springs. No matter what […]
The other side of the global crisis: entropy and the collapse of civilizations
The other side of the global crisis: entropy and the collapse of civilizations When we discuss the impending crisis of our civilisation, we mainly look at the resources our economy need in a growing quantity. And we explain why the Diminishing Returns of resource exploitation pose a growing burden on the possibility of a further […]
Cashless Crisis: “With Digital Payments, Civilization Comes To An End Until Power is Restored”
Cashless Crisis: “With Digital Payments, Civilization Comes To An End Until Power is Restored” The coming brave new world may also be a fragile one. As most of the Western world is pushed into abandoning cash and embracing a fully digital cashless grid, it is apparent how vulnerable populations will become in times of crisis. If the […]
The Opaque Process of Collapse
The Opaque Process of Collapse The ultimate cost of protecting the privileges of the few at the expense of the many is the dissolution of the social order that enabled the rule of the privileged few. When I write about the demise of unsustainable systems, readers often ask me to describe the collapse I see […]
Derrick Jensen has Inspired Me to Question Civilization
Derrick Jensen has Inspired Me to Question Civilization Photo: Hartwig HKD/Flickr CC. I rode my horse out through the woods the other day. It was a beautiful Autumn afternoon as golden light filtered through the trees. My horse was keen to graze in an open meadow, so we found a spot where he could forage for […]
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 […]
Noam Chomsky: How America’s Way of Thinking About the World Naturally Produces Human Catastrophes
Noam Chomsky: How America’s Way of Thinking About the World Naturally Produces Human Catastrophes The scholar talks about the seemingly innocuous elements of our socialization that promote one-world view over another. Tavis: Noam Chomsky is, of course, internationally recognized as one of the world’s most critically engaged public intellectuals. The MIT professor of linguistics […]
