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The collapse of a global hegemon is always an extremely dangerous time. The fall of the British empire was the proximate cause of two world wars and many smaller conflicts, for example, and the fall of the Spanish empire was even more of a mess.

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My father, a lifelong materialist, was startled one day to hear his mother’s voice from the ground floor of his house, calling his boyhood nickname. That was a bit of a surprise, since she was 300 miles away at the time. Startled, he went to look, and found no one there.

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Hitler, who was a capable occultist, had the SS fill the first few rows of the auditorium for his speeches with middle-aged women, whom they called "the varicose veins brigade"; ...

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The Russo-Ukrainian and Israeli-Palestinian wars are the first wave of wars in the dissolution of America’s empire, and there will be more. The great challenge faced by Europe and the United States at this point is that they’re completely unprepared for a major land war;

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Educated Romans did not believe that their civilization could end. Neither do most educated Europeans and Americans today. Read works from the twilight years of Roman civilization and you’ll encounter a ...

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As he was turning to go back to his study, the phone rang; it was the retirement home where she spent her last years telling my father that she had just died. He’d been blindsided by a universe that refuses to abide by our human notions of what can be real

Beyond Thaumatophobia 3: The End of the Age of Reason

Over the last month, in the course of these biweekly essays, I’ve been exploring the fear of the metaphysical realm well expressed by Naomi Wolf in one of her recent Substack posts. A more recent p…

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Putin’s a fascinating figure: a cold, cautious, methodical bureaucrat who found himself unexpectedly plopped into a position where he could save his country from dismemberment and despoliation, and in his cold, cautious, methodical way, proceeded to do exactly that.

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Not that many centuries ago, experiences like the one my father had .. were considered commonplace in the Western world. People talked about them, scholars collected & discussed them, and the learned & unlearned alike took them into account when trying to make sense of the world

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The standard belief these days, at least in the cultural mainstream, is that this happened purely because people in those days, before the Age of Reason, were too stupid and ignorant to recognize how silly they were. That belief is arrogant; it’s also demonstrably wrong.

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Human reason, after all, is not an omnipotent superpower. It’s simply a collection of cognitive habits that help avoid certain common mistakes. It’s much more dependent on language and culture than most members of its fan club like to admit.

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That’s why European militaries have become so tiny and poorly equipped, and why the US military is heavy on expensive gadgets and low on old-fashioned firepower. At this point, if the United States goes to war with a conventionally armed peer opponent, it will lose.

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the assumption was that those weren’t going to happen any more and that counterinsurgency, manufactured revolutions, and other forms of conflict short of massed land warfare were the shape of the future.

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Some European leaders are eager to go there because they grasp that once the balance of power shifts decisively away from the Atlantic, Europe’s going to turn back into the desperately poor and rather backward region on the fringes of civilization it was before 1500.

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In most decadent empires, you don’t get rich by productive work, you get rich by figuring out how to extract wealth parasitically from the system. That’s the condition we’re in today.

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Western frontline client states — Ukraine and Israel at the moment, but there will be others — are trying to drag the West into war because otherwise they face national extinction.

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If Europe does the same thing, it will lose even more badly. That’s clear to anyone who assesses the events in Ukraine and the relative size and strength of the various militaries involved. So what’s going on now is an exceedingly complicated game of chicken.

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Depending on who you ask, Carl Jung was either a psychologist who knew a lot about occultism or an occultist who managed to fool people into thinking he was talking about psychology. (Me, I tend toward the latter explanation.)

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I get the impression that investment firms in the City of London invested way too heavily in Ukrainian farmland and are flailing around desperately trying to prevent a complete loss. The thing that makes me shake my head is that it wouldn’t take too many hypersonic missiles — of

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It’s embarrassing how many people still don’t know what this book said. What The Limits to Growth showed is that if economic growth is pursued far enough, the costs of growth rise faster than the benefits and force the global economy to its knees.

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I notice that the US and state governments are massively downplaying the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, which begins next year…

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We’re not facing collapse. We’re facing decline, which is not at all the same thing. Our culture has this bizarre astigmatism of the imagination that leads people to think that the only alternative to perpetual progress is sudden collapse…and that’s not true at all.

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One random neuron firing in what’s left of Joe Biden’s brain could send the world down an otherwise unpredictable path. From

The Flight from Prediction

I think most of my readers know that my academic background, such as it is, is in the history of ideas. To some extent that was simply the best option I could find when I returned to college in 199…

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Others, including our government, are frantically backpedaling while still making threatening noises. Could it all go messily to bits? Sure. The problem is that in such times individual choices have immense impacts.

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.. their frustrated sexual energy and etheric force flowed toward him, and enabled him to work the magic that put millions of Germans in his power. He spent his time in Vienna reading all about occultism --

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I’m tending more and more to accept the claim that productive economic activity is increasingly impossible to carry out in a neoliberal society, since the entire economy has been reworked to pump wealth out of productive activities into parasitic ones.

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My take is that the US is incredibly unstable right now, and could go in almost any imaginable direction between now and the election, as well as some unimaginable ones. We’ll just have to wait and see.

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It’s precisely the fact that nobody in power ever has to take responsibility for even their stupidest decisions that guarantees the downfall of the system.

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Buddhism suffers from the usual Piscean-era fixation on treating existence as a problem for which amputating some part of human experience is the cure.

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Waiting for society to get a clue is a sucker’s game. Living the best life possible, knowing that most people will be baffled and contemptuous of you, but a few might get a clue from your example, seems much more sensible to me.

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.. dizzying disconnection between the hard facts—roads crumbling, trade links snapping, the imperial government holed up in Ravenna while barbarian armies surge across the landscape—and the serene conviction that ..

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A thousand years from now Trump may still play the role of the Once and Future King in legends in deindustrial America, and there may still be people who believe that Mar-a-Lago will rise from the sea someday and the King in Orange will appear and make everything wonderful.

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I’ve seen solidly documented arguments that the Amazon rain forest didn’t exist in 1492 — that the Amazon basin was a thickly inhabited agricultural region, and only after the cataclysmic dieoff of native people due to smallpox & other diseases did the rain forest come into being

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The US is in the midst of the same kind of crisis that overwhelmed the Soviet Union; our political and economic system has stopped working, nobody believes in the old slogans any more, and life has become almost universally miserable for everyone outside of ..

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I really don’t think most people in the West realize just how catastrophic to the existing Western regimes a Russian victory in Ukraine will be. The entire grand strategy of the West for many years now has focused on breaking up Russia and absorbing it into the EU...

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This kind of thinking is becoming increasingly widespread in today’s America. I know of nothing more threatening to the status quo.

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The Nazi Party itself was launched as the political action wing of a magical lodge, the Thule-Gesellschaft.

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The US and NATO elite are in full, shrill meltdown mode. It never occurred to them that they could lose. As far as I can tell, they were serenely convinced that their handling of the Ukraine business would cause Russia to suffer a humiliating defeat,

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The Western managerial class is in terminal crisis. It’s precisely because they’ve lost their cool completely, and can’t understand why everyone doesn’t just do what corporate neoliberal ideology says they ought to do, that they’re shrieking, flailing, and abandoning everything

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I suspect that people many centuries from now, when they read ancient literature from the twenty-first century, will find similar disconnects in our narratives: the gritty realities of life in a declining civilization ...

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and he was particularly interested in the teachings of Austrian occultist Joerg Lanz von Liebenfels, whose magazine Ostara Hitler read voraciously. Many of the other core Nazis from early on -- notably Himmler and Hess -- were up to their eyeballs in occult traditions

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Population growth is slowing very rapidly now. We’re probably going to be at peak global population by 2030, and after that decline sets in. That’s far more challenging than anybody’s prepared to face. Can you imagine what will happen when your house loses money every year?

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.. these are temporary inconveniences that the Roman Empire will surely surmount once times improve a little.

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You can catch a whisper of what else is going on if you listen to the frequent rants heard from the managerial class these days about how young people just don’t want to work any more.

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John Michael Greer posted this on his site: My wife Sara passed away peacefully in her sleep earlier this evening. Thank you, all of you, for your thoughts, prayers, and support; this has been a difficult process, but it would have been much worse without you. -- JMG

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Rising civilizations thrive because they encourage talented people to rise to positions of influence and responsibility; declining civilizations fail because they allow the wealthy and influential to hoard such positions for their children,

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In becoming an empire the United States shed many of the things that Americans once took pride in; in order to fixate on the frantic quest to claim some of the goodies from the feed trough of empire -

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That someone like Putin might have valid reasons for opposing us — not “he’s evil for the sake of evil,” not even “he must have had a horrible childhood that warped him,” but calm, reasonable, appropriate reasons to draw a hard line against the global ambitions of a rival nation-

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Most Americans literally can’t imagine the leader of an opposing nation, or even a candidate of the rival party in their own nation, without seeing him as Blorg the Bad, Evil Lord of Evilness.

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.. coexisting serenely in the minds of today’s writers with the conviction that someday soon we’ll surely be headed for the stars.

The Destiny of Disenchantment

The last three posts in our ongoing discussion of the history of enchantment have examined the work of three influential writers on the history of consciousness—Ken Wilber, Owen Barfield, and Jean …

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People in power right now realize that we’re 1 triggering event from the kind of crisis that could bring down the US regime & the situation in Texas could easily become such an event. So they're desperately pretending that nothing is happening & Biden hasn’t had his bluff called.

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Free speech is a useful safety valve for any society that feels confident of its strength; when it gets shut down, you can tell that the rulers are in a state of panic.

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I’ve been exploring the fear of the metaphysical realm well expressed by Naomi Wolf in one of her recent Substack posts. A more recent post by her on the same theme takes the same discussion further, in a way that deserves respect.

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While I don’t seriously expect the trajectory of the United States to parallel that of the Soviet Union anything like as precisely as this satiric metaphor would suggest, the basic pattern of cascading dysfunction ending in political collapse is quite a common thing in history,

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Arnold Toynbee's explanation for the decline & fall of civilizations was subtle but straightforward. He noted that most fallen empires could have recovered from the crises that destroyed them, but reliably failed to take the steps that could have saved them.

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I know it’s comforting to some people to believe that the ruling elites of our society are omnipotent masterminds who deliberately cause everything that happens. It’s much more frightening to realize that the people who are running our society are -

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From the point of view of Western occultism, desire is a necessary part of existence, and it's to be educated, not eradicated: a person without desire is an amputee, not an enlightened being.

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The US is run by a thoroughly decadent aristocracy these days, and it’s got a worse case of that than most. Every decadent aristocracy tries to arrange things so that its members never have to suffer the consequences of their own incompetence.

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What they’re not willing to do is waste their lives working in abusive and humiliating environments to make someone else rich, in exchange for rock-bottom wages, no prospect for advancement, and no benefits worth mentioning.

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The reason there has been no European war outside the Balkans since 1945 has nothing to do with the European Union. The reason is that the United States and the Soviet Union enforced peace on the quarrelsome subcontinent at gunpoint,

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Look at it as a symbol. It shows the gay and lesbian communities being split apart by a wedge composed of racial and transgender issues. It shows the replacement of principles that everyone can embrace, and benefit from, by a system of privilege in which

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All sides of the current political landscape are full of blame and anger, because none of them have a positive vision that makes any sense in the context of the world we’re actually entering.

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The current managerial elite is terrified of the coming of Caesarism. They’re not wrong to do so; Putin’s harsh treatment of his nation’s plutocrats is a good example of how that typically works out in practice

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What makes an elite of educated managerial specialists such a disaster for any society isn’t that the specialists are morally worse than other elites. It’s that the ideology of that kind of elite education makes it all but impossible for them to recognize when they’re wrong.

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At this point it almost doesn’t matter what actually happened. The credibility of the Secret Service and the entire Washington establishment took the bullet that was meant for Trump, and they’re not getting back up.

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High-end think tanks funded by the elite have been talking explicitly about carving up Russia for many years now. Here’s one of the more popular schemes. As for why they’ve played their hand so badly, that’s a common problem with elite classes that get too detached from -

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Far and away the weirdest thing in contemporary culture- a fantastic number of people on the notional left suddenly started insisting on blind faith in the corporate system and its captive media.

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Half a century ago the West still had the kind of charisma that inspired imitation in other cultures. Now it doesn’t. People in the Middle East have seen where subservience to Western political, economic, and cultural standards leads, and they want none of it.

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Spengler's real crimes were twofold. First of all, his findings make the myth of progress much harder to uphold. He showed, among other things, that every major civilization has had its own age of reason, the rationalist philosophies deployed by each age of reason are simply -

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Of all the great figures of Russia’s history he’s one of the least characteristic, but he’s unquestionably the right man at the right time.

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My guess is that Mike Johnson caved on the Ukraine money because next to none of that money is actually going to Ukraine. It’s probably being used to prop up the Enron-style accounting fraud that allows the United States to keep borrowing when nobody wants to lend.

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The US is being shown up as completely powerless. The Biden regime are doing literally anything they can to try to avoid the otherwise inevitable outcome — the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq & Syria and the collapse of US control over the oil resources of the Persian Gulf.

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There’s a fascinating article on The National Interest: The author’s arguing that the cost of war has dropped so far that anybody can blockade a strait — & that leaves global hegemons, twisting in the wind because they no longer have a monopoly on certain kinds of military power-

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Here in the US the Prime Directive is that nobody in the elite classes must ever face the consequences of their actions, no matter how moronic or vile those actions happen to be. That’s why nobody rich or influential ever had to deal with the blowback from the 2008 fiasco -

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- is unthinkable to most of us. That ghastly disease of the imagination may well lead this country to its doom.

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

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Spengler was strongly influenced by Goethe, who used to understand things in nature by studying every form a given organ or structure took in different species -- here's a bat's wing, here's a human arm, here's a whale's flipper, here's a wolf's foreleg, and all of a sudden it..

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This is what the decline and fall of a civilization looks like. It’s not about sitting in a cozy earth-sheltered home under a roof loaded with solar panels .. while the rest of the world slides meekly down the chute toward history’s compost bin, leaving you and yours untouched.

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The British establishment is extremely weak right now by almost every imaginable metric, and it wouldn’t take too much at all to push Britain over the line into ungovernability and a relatively rapid period of steep decline. Thus the frenzied pushback from the ruling class,

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As Napoleon Bonaparte is supposed to have said, wars happen when the government tells you who the enemy is; revolutions happen when you figure it out for yourselves.

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Warhammer 40,000—WH40K to its fans - started out decades ago as a fantasy wargame influenced by Tolkien, with armies of elves, orcs, humans, and the like. Then some bright soul thought of transplanting the whole thing into space in the far future…and things got weird -

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All through the Middle Ages, people in Europe had been dimly aware that there had been a civilization before theirs, but nobody really grasped how different that civilization had been.

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The global residential real estate bubble may be the biggest bubble in history & when it pops — and it will, as population growth falters if not before — most of the notional wealth of the middle class as well as a great deal of the wealth of the financial sector will go away.

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Every elite class becomes senile sooner or later. The one now in power, the managerial-bureaucratic class, took power in the 1930s after the total failure of the earlier investment-capitalist class whose inept antics brought on the Great Depression.

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- utterly clueless nitwits who can hardly wipe their own noses without help from a staff of personal assistants. Nevertheless, I’d like to suggest that the latter is far more accurate.

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The rise of America’s suburbs in the postwar years drove a great many drastic cultural shifts, but one that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves is the destruction of women’s culture in the middle classes.

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The cretinous US foreign policy that forged an alliance between Russia and China, and then threw Iran into the mix, will go down in history as an unparalleled display of utter slack-jawed idiocy.

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Once the current US government falls, nobody’s going to want to pay for fantastically overpriced military hardware that doesn’t work, and that’s all that the US arms industry can produce at this point.

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The collapse of childhood freedoms in the face of mostly imaginary parental and societal terrors is a bleak story. I went all over the place on my bike, meaning anything up to twenty miles from home, and neither I nor anyone else thought anything of it.

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If you point out to most people that nuclear power isn’t a viable source of energy for our civilization, and that green energy sources such as solar PV and windpower are even less viable than nuclear power, the inevitable response is, “But there’s got to be something!” ->

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To my mind Malcom Kyeyune is one of the best bloggers around these days

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NYC’s in fairly deep trouble now and the surface problems are symptomatic of a deeper crisis: the end of US empire. Once the US can no longer commandeer an outsized share of the planet’s wealth, NYC will go back to being what it was in the 19th century, -

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Anyone who was paying attention in 1921 knew that the British Empire would soon be pushing up daisies in the graveyard of dead hegemonies. After two years of bitter counterinsurgency warfare, the British government bowed to the inevitable and let Ireland claim its independence.

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You're watching the death throes of an empire. It's not the biggest or the bloodiest empire in this cycle of human history -- that was the British Empire, which dominated more of the Earth and enforced its rule more savagely than we ever managed.

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For as long as there has been an intellectual class, a significant number of its members have figured out that parroting whatever the rich want to hear is one fairly reliable way to make a living.

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Occultists and mystics for centuries have noticed that meaningful coincidences are a helpful indication that spiritual forces are involved in a situation; Carl Jung's concept of synchronicity put that same insight into modern terms.

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the privileged nomenklatura who profit from the rotting corpse of the system. In the latter end of the Soviet era, a lot of people drank themselves to death; here in America we’re somewhat less traditional and so use slightly more exotic intoxicants to do the same thing.

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Over the next 1 to 3 centuries, the benefits of industrial civilization are going to go away for everyone. The reasoning here is straightforward. White’s Law, one of the fundamental principles of human ecology, states that economic development is a function of energy per capita;

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It interests me that so many people think that the Starmer regime is overreacting. Quite the contrary, they have a matter of weeks to put a lid on this or Starmer may well end up having to flee the country like the recently deposed Bangladeshi head of state.

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As the global economic basis for US empire breaks down the salary class is being sacrificed from the bottom up, and the ruling elite (Democrats and RINO Republicans alike) are trying to use various gimmicks to keep themselves in power anyway. The erosion of civil rights in the

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John Michael Greer

@JMGreerWriter

5 months

Everyone seems quite aware of the fact that most of the people who make big money in our grand post-industrial kleptocracies are doing it by exploiting those who actually produce goods and services, in exactly the same way that a pimp exploits sex workers.

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