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Well and Truly Fracked 22 Aug 2013 | 09:50 am
The reduction of contemporary debates about the future to ritual theater, the theme of last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report, isn’t limited to the specific technological issues I discussed in ...
The Ritual Theater of Progress 15 Aug 2013 | 07:54 am
This habit of drafting my ideas on the future of industrial society right out here in public has its disadvantages, to be sure, but there are benefits as well. One of the more unexpected of these is t...
Not Written in the Stars 8 Aug 2013 | 06:24 am
When Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God—in less metaphorical terms, the collapse of the Christian faith that had provided the foundations for European social life since the Dark Ages—he s...
On the Far Side of Progress 1 Aug 2013 | 10:12 am
The pointless debates over evolution discussed in last week’s Archdruid Report post have any number of equivalents all through contemporary industrial culture. Pick a topic, any topic, and it’s a pre...
The Quest for a Common Language 25 Jul 2013 | 08:47 am
It was probably inevitable that my comment last week about the pseudoconservative crusade against Darwinian evolution in today’s America would attract more attention, and generate more heat, than anyt...
Held Hostage by Progress 18 Jul 2013 | 09:10 am
The continual recycling of repeatedly failed predictions in the peak oil community, the theme of last week’s post here, is anything but unique these days. Open a copy of today’s newspaper (or the onli...
Asking the Hard Questions 11 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
There are nights, now and then, when I sit up late with a glass of bourbon and look back over the long strange trip that’s unfolded over the last thirty years or so. When a substantial majority of Am...
A Peculiar Absence of Bellybones 4 Jul 2013 | 11:33 am
The fixation on imaginary “perfect storms” critiqued in last week’s post is only one expression of a habit of thinking that pervades contemporary American culture and, to a lesser extent, most other i...
Imperfect Storms 27 Jun 2013 | 09:16 am
Last week’s post on the need to check our narratives against the evidence of history turned out to be rather more timely than I expected. Over the weekend, following hints and nods from the Fed that t...
What Actually Happens 20 Jun 2013 | 11:06 am
When you think about it, it’s really rather odd that so many people nowadays should be so hostile to the suggestion that history moves in circles. Central to the rhetoric that celebrates industrial ci...
