Wednesday, September 17, 2008

AR: The Effluent Society

John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
The carnage currently underway in global financial markets is tracing the familiar trajectory of boom and bust. Is the three-hundred-year rise of modern industrial society simply the first half of the same pattern writ large?

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Also via EB: John Michael Greer interview (audio)
KMO, C-Realm Podcast Episode 120
The Long Descent

KMO welcomes author and Archdruid, John Michael Greer, to the program to discuss his new book The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age and explore the possibility that Peak Oil may play out more like a fall down the stairs than like a plunge from a third floor balcony.

Do the worldviews of Peak Oil aficionados, Singularitarians, and Trekkies all spring from the book of Revelations, and are modern visions concerning progress and the human future really just ancient religious myths in secular drag?
(17 September 2008)


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