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The Revolt of the Imagination, Part One: Notes on Belbury Syndrome | John Michael Greer
Feb. 2, 2022 (EcoSophia.net) --Maybe it’s true that life really does imitate literature. Over the last week or so, certainly, a detail from one of my favorite works of imaginative fiction played out at least twice in the real world, with microphones live and cameras rolling. I’m thinking here first of German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, who promoted vaccine mandates with this bit of fascin ...
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The Unmanageable Future | John Michael Greer
Jan. 19, 2022 (EcoSophia.net) -- Explorers into unknown territory face plenty of risks. One that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves is the possibility that they know less about the country ...
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Tomorrowland Has Fallen! | John Michael Greer
Jan. 5, 2020 (EcoSophia) -- Has anyone else noticed just how odd it is that so many people on the progressive end of our cultural landscape are frantically trying to convince everyone that the Omicro ...
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Notes On The Lemurian Deviation | John Michael Greer
Dec. 29, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- It’s been more or less standard practice on this blog for a while now that, whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, I ask my readers what they want to hear abo ...
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On Domed Cities and Doomed Dreams | John Michael Greer
Dec. 15, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Recently I’ve been reading the writings of the American philosopher William James. You won’t see much discussion of his work among philosophers nowadays, and that’s n ...
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An Empire of Dreams | John Michael Greer
Dec. 1, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There’s a fond belief among the comfortable classes of our time, and for that matter every other time, that the future can be arranged in advance through reasonable di ...
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A Season for Giving | John Michael Greer
Nov. 17, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- As I write these words, Christmas is a little more than a month away. Normally I don’t look forward to that December day with any noteworthy enthusiasm. Granted, it’s ...
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The Next European War | John Michael Greer
Nov. 3, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- The notion that history has nothing to teach us is one of the most pervasive beliefs in modern industrial society. It’s also one of the most misguided. Sure, we’ve got ...
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The End of the Dream | John Michael Greer
Oct. 20, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are times when the winds that shape the future blow strong enough to be heard over the jabber of everyday life, and this is one of those times. For a while now ...
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That Untraversed Land | John Michael Greer
Oct. 6 ,2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- It’s been just over a month since I started talking about how the predictions set out in 1972 by The Limits to Growth were coming true in our time. Since then the situ ...
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The Way of Participation: A Response to Paul Kingsnorth | John Michael Greer
Paul Kingsnorth, 2011. By Navjoat Kingsnorth - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0Sept. 29, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- A fair number of my readers also follow the writings of the English writer Paul Kingsnorth, who ...
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