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The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Three: The End of the Dream

The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Three: The End of the Dream Let’s take a moment to recap the argument of the last two posts here on The Archdruid Report before we follow it through to its conclusion. There are any number of ways to sort out the diversity of human social forms, but one significant division lies between […]

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The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Two: A Landscape of Hallucinations

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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The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part One: Civilization and Barbarism

The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part One: Civilization and Barbarism One of the oddities of the writer’s life is the utter unpredictability of inspiration. There are times when I sit down at the keyboard knowing what I have to write, and plod my way though the day’s allotment of prose in much the same spirit that a […]

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