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The Song Remains the Same | John Michael Greer
May 8, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- If you always do what you’ve always done, a popular saying nowadays has it, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. Most people accept that readily enough in the abstract. It’s when they attempt to apply this logic to their own lives and thinking that they get tripped up, because self-defeating patterns very often arise from a mismatch between basic presuppo...
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The Deep End of the Risk Pool | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Where on earth did Paul Krugman get the idea -- expressed Monday morning -- that ours is "a weak economy?" The Dow Jones Industrial Average is about to scale previously uncharted heights and the Standard & Poors Index is piling onto its molehill, too. If stocks are up the economy can't be weak since stock markets = the economy. All the...
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The Shape of Time | John Michael Greer
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), ‘Caryatid’ (1913), Pencil and crayon on paper, 55 x 41.5cm, © The Garman Ryan Collection, The New Art Gallery, WalsallMay 1, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Trying to have a conversation about the issues central to this sequence of posts, to make use of an apt if familiar metaphor, is rather like trying to discuss the nature of water with fish. The ideas that play the lar...
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We Wish | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust April 29, 2013 Wishful thinking now runs so thick and deep across the USA that our hopes for a credible future are being drowned in a tidal wave of yellow smiley-face stories recklessly issued by institutions that ought to know better. A case in point is the Charles C. Mann's tragically dumb cover story in the current Atlantic magazine -- "WE ...
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The God With Three Heads | John Michael Greer
April 24, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- It's been said that a man’s religion is the thing he can’t bear to have questioned. If there’s any truth in that old saying, the idea that faith in progress is a religion has a great deal going for it. Over the seven years this blog has been appearing, I’ve discussed any number of controversial issues and made plenty of proposals that contradict the conve...
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Aftershocks | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust April 22, 2013 If the FBI can track down two homicidal Chechen nobodies inside of 48 hours of their Boston bombing caper, you kind of wonder how come the Bureau can't detect the odor of racketeering, insider trading, and wire fraud in this month's orchestrated smackdown of the gold futures markets, including the parts played by the Federal rese...
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An Aside To My Readers | John Michael Greer
April 17, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Americans in particular, and people throughout the industrial world more generally, like to pretend that history has nothing to teach them. It’s a remarkably odd habit, not least because the lessons of history keep whacking them upside the head with an assortment of well-aged and sturdy timbers, without ever breaking through the trance. My favorite example, no...
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Smack Down Time | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust April 15, 2013 What a humdinger last week was in a money world that is chugging toward maximum velocity and turbulence. Readers know (and may be sick of hearing) that I'm allergic to conspiracy theories, but my allergy is not absolute or total and there are excellent reasons to believe that the smack down of gold and silver was an orchestrated even...
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The Religion of Progress | John Michael Greer
April 10, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- To suggest that faith in progress has become the most widely accepted civil religion of the modern industrial world, as I’ve done in these essays, is to say something at once subtler and more specific than a first glance might suggest. It’s important to keep in mind, as I pointed out in last week’s post, that “religion” isn’t a specific thing with a specific...
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That Dreadful Day | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aprl 7, 2013 For the moment, the trend seems pretty clear. Money from far and wide rushes into the U.S. stock markets because every other conceivable place to stash money produces no return, no interest, no increase, at a time when the value of central bank currencies is slip-slidin' somewhere south of Palookaville. The rush into equities gooses eq...
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Are You Going To Entropy Faire? | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust April 1, 2013 Things are breaking loose. Holes have appeared in the fabric of fraud and lies that passes for the world money system. They are black holes, gravitationally sucking in the things breaking loose, and as these things cross their event horizons, they will never be seen again. These things I speak of are the collateral for vast nebulae of fal...
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