If change is to come, it will have to come from the margins. Wendell Berry You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller Before we get into what could be called a “rural strategy” for de-Trumping our non-urban areas in America, let’s do a quick recap of the overall scheme … Continue reading De-Trumping Rural America
I always say, we have two enemies. We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within. And the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries. They’re Marxists and communists and fascists, and they’re sick. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they … Continue reading America’s Future: Theocracy or Community?
As we come down the home stretch of the shitshow that is the 2024 Presidential election, it has become clear that our problem is not just Trump, or his legion of followers, or even the entire American political system, which has tipped over completely into plutocratic servitude. What is really crippling us is a dysfunctional set of ideas, a system of zombie ideas so entrenched … Continue reading Hard to Kill: Zombie Ideas That Need Slaying
An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. Arthur Miller Those who are most asleep think they are most awake, being under the power of vivid and fixed visions, so that those who are most ignorant think they know most. Theodotus (2nd Century C.E.) There is, I think, a growing, deep, general awareness of a massive systems failure in our … Continue reading Strange Expectations: The Age of Magical Thinking Hits the Wall
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools Martin Luther King, Jr. Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect Chief Seattle Community is the only heaven we can reasonably look forward to, the only … Continue reading We Are Each Other’s Future
People never leave a sinking ship until they until they see the lights of another ship approaching. Buckminster Fuller You have to see it to be it. Billie Jean King Before getting into the meat of this new post, let’s just do a quick recap lap, to level-set our starting assumptions. Evidence is mounting that we’re in the midst of a massive, not-so-slow-motion system collapse, … Continue reading Our Next Way of Life: A Thought Experiment
Last time, we looked at how bad things are from an ecological perspective, and how a universal cognitive dissonance has emerged, coming from the lack of congruity between the pending collapse we all sense and the various delusional stories we are being told about possible paths to the future. This creeping sense of disoriented dread is exacerbated by the lack of any workable points of … Continue reading The Cheat Code for Preventing and/or Surviving The Coming Collapse (Part 2)
Utopias are often just premature truths. Alphonse de Lamartine The Bad News I haven’t looked into any concrete stats on this, but my sense is that there is growing popular suspicion that something very big is coming to an end. We might not know what that ‘something’ is, exactly (Civilization? Industrialism? Capitalism?), but with every passing season, the lurking shadow of collapse is taking shape … Continue reading The Cheat Code for Preventing and/or Surviving the coming Collapse (Part 1)
Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable — and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way. Daniel Quinn Our way of life doesn’t need to be saved. The planet needs to be saved from our way of life. Lierre Keith In this blog, I have written extensively about the need for building concrete model communities as triggers for wider social change. … Continue reading Reversing The Fall: Our Next Demographic Transition
I want to leave my country without leaving my home. Kirkpatrick Sale We’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden. Joni Mitchell A couple months ago, my wife and I finally got down to Costa Rica on vacation, for 10 glorious days. We have been trying to get there for a while now, but you know… pandemic and post-pandemic and all that. As we … Continue reading Our Civilization’s Crisis of Place
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