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What Optimism and Pessimism Are in the 21st Century, a Reflection on “Are We Doomed?,” And Two Narratives of the Human Journey
What Optimism and Pessimism Are in the 21st Century, a Reflection on “Are We Doomed?,” And Two Narratives of the Human Journey Quick Links and Fresh Thinking ‘Things I’m ashamed to admit’: TikTok trend driving new level of oversharing (The Guardian) How the Ray-Ban Wayfarer became the accessory of choice for the men-children of the […]
Are We in the Early Stages of Civilizational Collapse? Plus, the Future of the Economy, and Why the World is Going Crazy
Are We in the Early Stages of Civilizational Collapse? Plus, the Future of the Economy, and Why the World is Going Crazy The other day, as I was doing my daily reading, I came across climate scientists, debating whether or not we faced civilizational collapse. It was interesting, and I want to take a sec […]
The Next Ten Years and the Fate of Civilization, Why We’re at a Crossroads in History, Plus, What Broken Ages End In
The Next Ten Years and the Fate of Civilization, Why We’re at a Crossroads in History, Plus, What Broken Ages End In (Why) We’re at a Crossroads in History It’s hard to believe, but we’re almost halfway through the 2020s. It’s the year 2024, and…how would you say things are going? For us, whether as […]
The Alarm Bells of Civilizational Collapse Are Ringing — But Are We Listening?
The Alarm Bells of Civilizational Collapse Are Ringing — But Are We Listening? If Our Civilization Is Going to Survive, It’s Going to Have to Change Like This — Fast Image Credit: TRT News Right about now, you’re probably feeling overwhelmed. With all the chaos out there. This is the Age of Too Much Chaos. Every […]
This Winter, Collapse Is Coming to Britain
This Winter, Collapse Is Coming to Britain Britain Is Standing at the Edge of Social Collapse’s Abyss — And It’s About to Jump Image via Mark Thompson on Twitter These days, my British friends ask me the same question, with the same faint tinge of terror in their voices. “So. How bad is it going to […]
Things Feel Bleak Because This Way of Life is Coming to an End
Things Feel Bleak Because This Way of Life is Coming to an End The Lesson of 2021 is Either We Change — or Things Collapse Around Us Here’s a tiny question. What is the lesson Covid is trying to teach us? As we settle in to a new normal, where Covid is going permanent, and […]
The Future of the World Economy is Perma-Crisis
The Future of the World Economy is Perma-Crisis These Aren’t Shortages — They’re the Beginning of the Longest, Hardest Economic Collapse in History Image Credit: 7News Screenshot Sshh, don’t tell anyone. In my other life, I’m a musician. I’m lucky enough to be working with a vocalist who many of you’ve probably heard of. Her […]
Why Everything is Suddenly Getting More Expensive — And Why It Won’t Stop
Why Everything is Suddenly Getting More Expensive — And Why It Won’t Stop Welcome to the Great Inflation — Or, Why We Have to Pay for the Hidden Costs of the Industrial Age Image Credit: Fortune It’s not just me. It’s probably you, too. Have you noticed that it’s starting to be hard to just…get […]
This is How a Civilization Collapses
This is How a Civilization Collapses What Does a Civilization That’s Beginning to Collapse Look Like? This, Here, Now Image Credit: Lex Augusteijn “You don’t seriously think…civilization…is going to…collapse? Do you? LOL! Dude!! Here, have a beer!” It’s a question I get asked these days, sometimes angrily, sometimes mockingly, sometimes like I’m crazy — rarely seriously. […]
The Price of Empire
The Price of Empire Why America and Britain Are Self-Destructing (And What the World Can Learn From it) It’s a striking fact of today’s world that the two rich societies in shocking, swift, sharp decline are America and Britain. Nowhere else in the world, for example, are real income, life expectancy, happiness, and trust all plummeting, apart […]
How Societies Collapse: Or, The Eerie Parallels Between Rome, Nazi Germany, and America
How Societies Collapse: Or, The Eerie Parallels Between Rome, Nazi Germany, and America A little reflection occurs to me every time I write about American collapse. Societies collapse in much the same way — there is something like a universal way of collapse. Yet the whole problem begins with the fact that human beings, having needy egos, find their […]
Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse The Strange New Pathologies of the World’s First Rich Failed State You might say, having read some of my recent essays, “Umair! Don’t worry! Everything will be fine! It’s not that bad!” I would look at you politely, and then say gently, “To tell you the truth, I don’t think we’re taking […]
How Economics Failed the Economy
How Economics Failed the Economy The Difficult Art of Reckoning With the Human Good When, in the 1930s, the great economist Simon Kuznets created GDP, he deliberately left two industries out of this then novel, revolutionary idea of a “national income”: finance and advertising. Don’t worry, this essay isn’t going to be a jeremiad against them, that […]
