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Returning to the Commonplace | John Michael Greer

April 18, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are times when the twilight of the American century takes on a quality of surreal absurdity I can only compare to French existentialist theater or the better productions of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and this is one of them. Over the weekend, in response to a chemical-weapons incident in Syria that may or may not have happened -- governments on all sides ...

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The Truths We Have In Common | John Michael Greer

April 4, 2018 (EcoSophia) -- In recent posts here on Ecosophia.net, I’ve sketched out the way that the era of abstraction in which we’ve all grown up has foundered, following patterns that were old b ...

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An Astrological Interlude: Aries Ingress 2018 | John Michael Greer

March 28, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- This fourth Wednesday of the month would normally be an open post for readers’ questions, but I’ve been asked by quite a few people at this point to cast and delinea ...

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A Rhetorical Education | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerMarch 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Quite a bit of the discussion on this blog and its predecessors has focused on controversial issues, the kind of thing that causes rhetoric to fly f ...

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The Babbitt Fallacy, and Other Ways to Lose | John Michael Greer

Feb. 21, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’ve been thinking quite a bit about some of the habits of thought that form, or rather deform, the collective conversation of our time. Partly, of course, that’s bec ...

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Zeno’s Laughter | John Michael Greer

Zeno of EleaFeb. 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- We really are going to have to start a conversation about ethics, aren’t we? Last week’s post on the fallacy of claiming that there’s one and only one prop ...

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The Dream of a Perfect Diet | John Michael Greer

Jan. 31, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to spend the last couple of days writing an essay about the astral plane, because this is the fifth Wednesday of the month, and we’ve established an informa ...

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An Older Tradition | John Michael Greer

Thomas Taylor. Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830) - National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Public Domain.Jan. 17, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the last few days I’ve been watching yet a ...

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A Dangerous Year | John Michael Greer

Panel with striding lion. Period: Neo-Babylonian. Date: ca. 604–562 B.C. Geography: Mesopotamia, Babylon (modern Hillah) Culture: Babylonian. Medium: Ceramic, glaze. Dimensions: H. 38 1/4 in. (97.2 c ...

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Systems That Suck Less | John Michael Greer

Dec. 27, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post on political economy attracted plenty of disagreement. Now, of course, this came as no surprise, and it was also not exactly surprising that most of ...

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