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The Arc Of Our Future | John Michael Greer

July 29, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s open post, I noted that I didn’t have anything in particular planned for this fifth Wednesday of the month, and asked my readers what they wanted to hear about. Quite a few subjects got brought up for discussion -- among others, the novels of Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung’s concept of synchronicity, and the metaphysics of sex -- but the largest number of ...

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Our Civilization Needs a Great Transformation | umair haque

Photo: Medium We Need Three Decades of Revolutions. But Are We Capable of It? July 25, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Any thoughtful person should understand that, at this juncture in human history, civil ...

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Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball | Joe Bageant

Predator drone firing a hellfire missile. (Public domain)Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse Joe Bageant -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- AJIJIC, JALISCO, Mexico -- As an Anglo ...

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The Next Twilight of Environmentalism | John Michael Greer

Aug. 7, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Well, it’s about to happen all over again. I’ve been wondering how soon a certain marriage of convenience in contemporary cultural politics would come messily apart, a ...

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Progress and Amnesia | John Michael Greer

Giant laser walrus. Source: worldwidewalrusweb.comJuly 17, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to launch straight into a discussion of peak oil this week, and talk about how the ongoing attempt to extr ...

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The Horsefly Cometh | James Howard Kunstler

Horsefly. Credit: Dave Edens, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 4, 2018 You can see where this Mueller thing is going: to the moment when the Golden Golem of Great ...

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That Collapse You Ordered…? | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust April 30, 2018 I had a fellow on my latest podcast, released Sunday, who insists the world population will crash 90-plus percent from th ...

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Another Quandary | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 9, 2018 That crusty ole rascal, Gov. Jerry Brown of California, seems to be enjoying his sunset journey into Civil War II or maybe the destination is m ...

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Light It Up | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 5, 2018 It must be hard on The New York Times editors to set their hair on fire day after day in their effort to start World War T ...

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End Times at the OD Corral | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 2, 2018 Personally, I believe that the plodding, implacable Robert Mueller, white knight of the Deep State, will flush the Golden ...

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And Now the Schiff Memo | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 26, 2018 The excruciating quandary President Trump presents to the nation is dragging the sad remnant of the thinking class ever-deeper into a netherwor ...

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