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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXXXV–Collapse Now To Avoid the Rush: The Long Emergency

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXXXV–Collapse Now To Avoid the Rush: The Long Emergency (Original posting date: June 6, 2023) Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Collapse Now To Avoid the Rush: The Long Emergency Today’s Contemplation has been prompted by yet another conversation I have had with a person who prefers not to believe the stories […]

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Is a Partial Collapse Possible? — Part 2

Is a Partial Collapse Possible? — Part 2 Image credit: Himesh Kumar Behera via Unsplash After exploring the possible ways the West could (continue to) collapse in Part 1, let’s turn our mental gaze towards the East, and see what are the global implications of such a shift in centers of power — if there are any… […]

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What People Don’t Get about This Inflation Spike

What People Don’t Get about This Inflation Spike Rising costs signal the ‘long emergency’ we face after glutting on cheap energy. Part one of two. Volatile energy prices are no mere brief glitch in the global economy. They are now a feature because we’ve met the end of easily extracted, cheap fossil fuels. Image via Shutterstock. […]

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There Is No Normal

There Is No Normal The wheel of time rolls forward, never retracing its path, but because it is a wheel, and we are riding in it, a persistent illusion persuades us that the landscape is recognizably the same, and that our doings within the regular turning of the seasons seem comfortably normal. There is no […]

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James Howard Kunstler: The Coming Economy Of “Less”

perfectlab/Shutterstock James Howard Kunstler: The Coming Economy Of “Less” Society is approaching a breaking point. Author and commentator James Howard Kunstler returns as our podcast guest this week for an update on where we are in The Long Emergency timeline. In this wide-raging discussion ranging from the pervasiveness of propaganda in today’s media to the […]

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Beyond Cynicism: America Fumbles Towards Kafka’s Castle

Beyond Cynicism: America Fumbles Towards Kafka’s Castle On America’s ‘long emergency’ of recession, globalization, and identity politics. Credit: alisafarov/Shutterstock Nobody knows, from sea to shining sea, why we are having all this trouble with our republic. — Tom McGuane Can a people recover from an excursion into unreality? The USA’s sojourn into an alternative universe of […]

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