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Futures That Work

October 6, 2022

Futures That Work Among the most curious features of the current predicament of industrial society is that so much of it was set out in great detail so many decades ago. Just at the moment I’m not thinking of the extensive literature on resource depletion that started appearing in the 1950s, which set out in […]

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Deconstructing Civilization

July 19, 2020

Deconstructing Civilization Old paper mill, Oregon City, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. “Our confidence in our ability to direct the course of events has been severely eroded by the experiences of the twentieth century. Several disastrous wars have occurred, against all efforts to prevent them, and even the United Nations has been almost totally unsuccessful […]

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The Twilight of the Intelligentsia

November 8, 2018

The Twilight of the Intelligentsia I promise, I didn’t time this sequence of posts so that this one would come out the morning after one of the most bitterly fought midterm elections in memory.  Nor, of course, did I have advance notice of the outcome, though it wasn’t a surprise to me that the much-ballyhooed […]

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The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Two: A Landscape of Hallucinations

July 24, 2015

The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Two: A Landscape of Hallucinations Last week’s post covered a great deal of ground—not surprising, really, for an essay that started from a quotation from a Weird Talesstory about Conan the Barbarian—and it may be useful to recap the core argument here. Civilizations—meaning here human societies that concentrate power, wealth, and population […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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