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The Four D’s That Define the Future
The Four D’s That Define the Future When the money runs out or loses its purchasing power, all sorts of complexity that were previously viewed as essential crumble to dust. Four D’s will define 2020-2025: derealization, denormalization, decomplexification and decoherence. That’s a lot of D’s. Let’s take them one at a time. I use the word derealization to […]
The Arc Of Our Future
The Arc Of Our Future In last week’s open post, I noted that I didn’t have anything in particular planned for this fifth Wednesday of the month, and asked my readers what they wanted to hear about. Quite a few subjects got brought up for discussion—among others, the novels of Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung’s concept […]
The Future is Up for Grabs
The Future is Up for Grabs When it comes to cashing in on Covid-19, the race has just begun. Whether you’re talking about education or contact tracing or medicine or mind control, an anti-democratic, dystopian future is being charted while we the people are locked down, locked up and locked out. Naomi Klein’s latest piece, […]
The Future Must Be Decentralized and Localized
The Future Must Be Decentralized and Localized We find ourselves at a moment where the financial and political systems that have dominated for decades are failing in a spectacular and irredeemable fashion. Those who pull the levers are (as usual) attempting to take advantage of the situation by rapaciously snatching and consolidating more wealth and […]
What will the world be like after coronavirus? Four possible futures
What will the world be like after coronavirus? Four possible futures The world-wide Corona-Crisis shows the limits of market-oriented economies. A key task for us all, Simon Mair writes, is demanding that emerging social forms come from an ethic that values care, life, and democracy. The central political task in this time of crisis is […]
A Letter to the Future
A Letter to the Future “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.”—WWI conspirator Edward Grey I do not write these words for my contemporaries. We are the damned. It is our lot now to watch as the lamp of liberty is extinguished, our burden to […]
What Will the Future Bring? Here’s How to Survive the Uncertainty
What Will the Future Bring? Here’s How to Survive the Uncertainty We live in a very different world than we did back in January when the calendar turned to 2020 and everyone was anticipating the great things they’d accomplish in the brand new decade. Only 3 months ago, we all had futures we imagined… Kids […]
What Will the Future Bring? Here’s How to Survive the Uncertainty
What Will the Future Bring? Here’s How to Survive the Uncertainty We live in a very different world than we did back in January when the calendar turned to 2020 and everyone was anticipating the great things they’d accomplish in the brand new decade. Only 3 months ago, we all had futures we imagined… Kids […]
The Pandemic Is Accelerating the Breakdown That Began a Decade Ago
The Pandemic Is Accelerating the Breakdown That Began a Decade Ago The feedback loop has reversed: by saving more, people will spend, borrow and speculate less, draining the fuel from any broadbased expansion. In eras of confidence and certainty, people save less and spend more freely. When we’re confident that good times are not only here […]
They’ve Stolen Our Future!
They’ve Stolen Our Future! Collapse is in the cards It’s time to have a serious conversation. I know we’ve been having it, but maybe there’s another glove hidden beneath the one we’ve already taken off. Put bluntly, there doesn’t seem to be any hope of avoiding a collapse of civilization. The forces of the Business-As-Usual […]
Jorg Friedrichs: The future is not what it used to be. climate change and energy scarcity
Jorg Friedrichs: The future is not what it used to be. climate change and energy scarcity Preface. This book ranges across many topics and I’ve only included a few bits and pieces. Friedrichs discusses what to do, recovery, denial, migration, historically how Japan, North Korea, and Cuba reacted to sudden energy decline and based on […]
Forecast 2019: Ding Ding ! Margin Call USA
Forecast 2019: Ding Ding ! Margin Call USA Welcome to the American hall of mirrors… and mind the broken glass all over the floor. That’s Nature’s way of saying the country has run out room to punk itself. 2018 was the consolidation of bad faith in everything we do: politics, the news media, economics & […]
Murky 2019 Could Be In Store for U.S. Economy Thanks to Fed’s Monetary Policy
Murky 2019 Could Be In Store for U.S. Economy Thanks to Fed’s Monetary Policy December 19 marks the day the Fed may have decided it’s going “all in” on the idea of a “strong U.S. economy.” The Fed locked in an increase of the Federal Funds Rate from 2.25% to 2.40%, and it will increase […]
The Recline and Flail of Western Civilization and Other 2019 Predictions
The Recline and Flail of Western Civilization and Other 2019 Predictions Darts in a Blizzard Today, as we prepare to close out the old, we offer a vast array of tidings. We bring words of doom and despair. We bring words of contemplation and reflection. And we also bring words of hope and sunshine. Famous […]
