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The Bulletin: November 12-18, 2025
The Bulletin: November 12-18, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Chris Hedges: The Empire Self-Destructs – Consortium News Latin American Kuwait: Trump’s Looming War In the Caribbean Might Have Nothing To Do With Narco Terrorism The seminal papers on water – by […]
The Bulletin: January 30-February 5, 2024
The Bulletin: January 30-February 5, 2024 What Won’t Happen Trump’s Bold Energy Gamble: It’s Not What You Think | Art Berman We already have a date for the zenith of civilization: 2025-2026 – Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse The Geopolitics of Climate Change || Peter Zeihan The longest 10 minutes of your life have just […]
What Qualities Do the Predicaments We Face Possess?
What Qualities Do the Predicaments We Face Possess? The view from Sunset Rock near Sparta, Tennessee I’d like to address something which has been on my mind quite a bit recently. How we view things or how we judge things has a lot to do with how we see life (our worldview) and the circumstances […]
The Grand Illusion
The Grand Illusion One of the things that is so pervasive in today’s society is the constant flow of hype, advertising, marketing, and propaganda, and many people fail to see through it. Steve Bull came out with this article explaining the same scenario. They are led to believe that everything is a problem and that technology or […]
The Streetlight Effect: When People Look Within The System For Solutions To The System
The Streetlight Effect: When People Look Within The System For Solutions To The System A policeman sees a drunk man crawling around on his hands and knees at night and asks what the problem is. The drunk man says he’s trying to find his keys, so the officer gets down and starts searching with him. […]
As The Perfect Storm Approaches, Most Americans Are Partying Instead Of Preparing
As The Perfect Storm Approaches, Most Americans Are Partying Instead Of Preparing I can’t think of a time when Americans were more apathetic about getting prepared, and yet this is exactly the time when the urgency to get prepared should be at the highest. Earlier today, my wife Meranda and I were discussing the fact […]
The Taste of Another’s Thoughts
The Taste of Another’s Thoughts We’ve taken a somewhat rambling route in our discussion of how each of us can haul ourselves up out of the swamp of abstractions in which modern industrial society is sinking fast, and find our way to the solid ground of things that actually matter. I know some of my […]
Solutions Only Arise Outside the Status Quo
Solutions Only Arise Outside the Status Quo Solutions are only possible outside these ossified, self-serving centralized hierarchies. Correspondent Dan F. asked me to reprint some posts on solutions to the systemic problems I’ve outlined for years, most recently in How Much Longer Can We Get Away With It? and Checking In on the Four Intersecting […]
Issues, Problems, (Social) Media and the Manipulation Thereof
ISSUES, PROBLEMS, (SOCIAL) MEDIA AND THE MANIPULATION THEREOF Back when I was knee high to a grasshopper the biggest issues I had were trying to avoid that jerk of a bully living across the street and making sure I returned home promptly when the street lights came on. There was no wiggle room on the […]
Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns?
Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns? Solutions abound, but they require the retirement of obsolete systems that defend entrenched interests and soul-crushing inequalities. It turns out Nero wasn’t fiddling as Rome burned–he was 60 km away at the time. Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned? The story has become short-hand for making light of a […]
Don’t Think the Status Quo Will Save You
Don’t Think the Status Quo Will Save You Here’s a chart that shows how the Status Quo “fixes” every problem: it transfers more debt and more losses to the taxpayers. Many hold a touchingly naive faith that the Status Quo will save them even as the current system unravels. Why is this faith naive? Let’s start […]
Progress in an Uncertain World
Progress in an Uncertain World Strong Towns is often accused of offering doom-and-gloom diagnoses of problems but being light on solutions. “You don’t tell us what we can actually DO to fix our insolvent cities,” goes the response. “You’re just so negative all the time.” This is not true, but I also don’t think it’s […]
