Reading this makes me think of John Michael Greer’s writings on catabolic collapse, scarcity industrialism and a salvage economy, but this article is more brutal. Highly recommended reading.
Meet Cannibalistic Capitalism: Globalization’s Evil Twin (July 30, 2012)
“Declining incomes and living standards mean poorer consumers, contracting markets and shrinking tax revenues. Of course, collapse can be postponed by using debt to artificially extend the solvency of businesses, consumers and governments; but without growth, [...]
Here, John Michael Greer is saying that Hubbert’s peak as applied to the entire Earth is going to be difficult to predict, due to…
The Cussedness of Whole Systems (June 27, 2012)
“Anyone who’s been following the peak oil blogosphere for more than a few years has gotten used to the annual predictions—they tend to pop up like mushrooms every December—that the year about to begin would finally see rates of petroleum production [...]
by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
Potential employers have to respond to the incentives and disincentives that exist in today’s world, and those do not favor conventional permanent employees.
I know you’re hard-working, motivated, tech-savvy and willing to learn. The reason I can’t hire you has nothing to do with your work ethic or skills; it’s the high-cost Status Quo, and the many perverse consequences of maintaining a failing Status Quo.
The sad [...]
I don’t know if this is an official installment John Michael Greer’s story arc of the American empire, but it could be considered one, as he circles back…
The Descent Into Stasis (May 9, 2012)
“The power exerted by each of these groups is by and large a veto power. They may not be able to get new policies through the jungle of competing interests in Washington, a task that is increasingly hard [...]
This eagerly awaited sixth installment in John Michael Greer’s story of the American empire does not disappoint. There is a lot of juicy meat to bite into – especially for military history enthusiasts.
America: The Gasoline War (April 11, 2012)
“Grant got the glory, and earned it fairly, but Sherman may have been the 19th century’s most innovative military thinker. When he came face to face with a Confederate army, whenever the strategic [...]
Next, the fifth installment of John Michael Greer’s engrossing story arc on the American empire…
America: The Eagle and the Lion (April 4, 2012)
“To a great many Americans, in fact, Britain was almost by definition the national enemy. The American national anthem, remember, commemorates the defense of an American fort against a British invasion force; the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 played a much larger role in the nation’s collective [...]
This is the fourth installment of John Michael Greer’s fascinating story arc on the American empire…
America: The Two Empires (March 29, 2012)
“The dawn of American empire had impacts reaching well beyond the handful of territories the United States seized and held in McKinley’s day. The same Congress that declared war against Spain had passed a resolution forbidding the annexation of Cuba – this was partly to win support for the war [...]
The Crux of
The Nature of Empire by John Michael Greer:
People use the word Empire as a symbol of evil (e.g. David Korten) or order and peace (e.g. Niall Ferguson). But the actual meaning is this:
“An empire is an arrangement among nations, backed and usually imposed by military force, that extracts wealth from a periphery of subject nations and concentrates it in the imperial core. Put more simply, an empire is [...]
The third installment in John Michael Greer’s story arc on the American empire…
America: Crossing the Line (March 21, 2012)
“Had the South kept the dominant position it originally held in American national politics, and arranged the nation’s trade policy to its own satisfaction… North’s newborn industrial system would have been flattened by competition from Britain’s far more lavishly capitalized factories and mercantile firms. The products of America’s farms, mines, and logging camps [...]
The next eagerly-awaited installment in John Michael Greer’s great story arc on the American empire…
America: Modes of Expansion (March 14, 2012)
“The three settlement patterns that emerged in the American colonies in the century or so before independence – New England’s attempt to copy its namesake across the Atlantic, the Tidewater economy of plantations feeding cash crops to Old World markets, and the fusion of immigrant traditions that was giving birth to [...]
In a reply to someone’s comment, he wrote: “I thought a lot of people were missing the point… The future we face isn’t business as usual with a coat of green spraypaint, or a hitching post for utopian fantasies, or some satisfyingly dramatic catastrophe that punishes the people we like to blame for our problems. It’s the decline and fall of a civilization the way this process actually happens: slow and [...]
Speculative science fiction….
What would a post peak oil world look like in the year 2050, 2100, and 2150?
In a reply to someone’s comment, he wrote: “I thought a lot of people were missing the point… The future we face isn’t business as usual with a coat of green spraypaint, or a hitching post for utopian fantasies, or some satisfyingly dramatic catastrophe that punishes the people we like to blame for [...]
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