Sharing a most revealing exposition (Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse – The 4th R of Deep Adaptation)... with lines of enquiry that I have personally long awaited. The time is now. Get real... https://jembendell.com/2019/01/09/hope-and-vision-in-the-face-of-collapse-the-4th-r-of-deep-adaptation/ Dr Jem Bendell is a Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS)... Continue Reading →
“Bye Bye America” – Part 2
You can't, with any hope of retaining much in the way of credibility, say on one day "Bye Bye America" - a story of societal collapse - and on the very next day say "Is America Really Collapsing?" - another story of societal collapse with a note of hope at the end. Yet this is... Continue Reading →
There’s Always The Brick
Today I am sharing a Guardian article that has at this time achieved almost a quarter of a million shares, indicating that it has hit a nerve somewhere in the popular conciousness. It is the second article in two days that I have come across which uses terms like 'horror story' or 'horror show' to... Continue Reading →
“Going Full Whig” – Kunstler’s Bombshell
It was around midnight when I penned my previous post on Jim Kunstler's latest article - : Going Full Whig yesterday. It may not be surprising therefore, that I did not possess the mental acuity at that late hour to fully take in what he was saying. So, here I am, back again, less than... Continue Reading →
Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
Debt, defaults, and devaluations: why this market crash is like nothing we've seen before Photo credit: The S&P 500 trading pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - owner unknown. I began this year with the thought, and sort of prediction, that we were or are heading into a Dark Age of human experience. I admittedly... Continue Reading →
I Am An Abject Failure
I am an abject failure. I do not say this from some depressed state, some suicidal thought, some tendency to self-flagellate. It is not some morbid attempt to heap shit on myself. It is simply that I recognise my own limitations, my unfulfilled hopes and desires. It is an acknowledgement that my vision is greater... Continue Reading →
“Messieurs, c’est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot.”
The Last Word From the start of my involvement with blogging and social media I have built up a list of favourite quotations. Among them is the following from Louis Pasteur the microbiologist and discoverer of the role of microbes in the process of fermentation and who played a large role in the field of... Continue Reading →
Gender Roles In Collapse
Today I read this excellent article titled 'On Gender, Collapse, & Communities We Can All Abide' by Katherine Acosta at the resilience.org website and was disgusted, though not surprised, to be awakened to the blinkered misogynist views of such otherwise eminent writers on societal collapse and related subjects as Dmitry Orlov and James Howard Kunstler.... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 