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A Tune for Mountain Dulcimer | John Michael Greer

May 2, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- For some time now I’ve been thinking about one of the core patterns underlying recent history here in the United States. It’s a pattern that can be traced from colonial ...

Returning to the Commonplace | John Michael Greer

April 18, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are times when the twilight of the American century takes on a quality of surreal absurdity I can only compare to French existentialist theater or the better p ...

The Truths We Have In Common | John Michael Greer

April 4, 2018 (EcoSophia) -- In recent posts here on Ecosophia.net, I’ve sketched out the way that the era of abstraction in which we’ve all grown up has foundered, following patterns that were old b ...

An Astrological Interlude: Aries Ingress 2018 | John Michael Greer

March 28, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- This fourth Wednesday of the month would normally be an open post for readers’ questions, but I’ve been asked by quite a few people at this point to cast and delinea ...

The Twilight of Authority | John Michael Greer

Painting by German artist Juergen Puetz. Photo: The New Indian ExpressMarch 21, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the need for a rhetorical education -- that is, an educatio ...

A Rhetorical Education | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerMarch 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Quite a bit of the discussion on this blog and its predecessors has focused on controversial issues, the kind of thing that causes rhetoric to fly f ...

The Babbitt Fallacy, and Other Ways to Lose | John Michael Greer

Feb. 21, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’ve been thinking quite a bit about some of the habits of thought that form, or rather deform, the collective conversation of our time. Partly, of course, that’s bec ...

Zeno’s Laughter | John Michael Greer

Zeno of EleaFeb. 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- We really are going to have to start a conversation about ethics, aren’t we? Last week’s post on the fallacy of claiming that there’s one and only one prop ...

The Dream of a Perfect Diet | John Michael Greer

Jan. 31, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to spend the last couple of days writing an essay about the astral plane, because this is the fifth Wednesday of the month, and we’ve established an informa ...

An Older Tradition | John Michael Greer

Thomas Taylor. Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830) - National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Public Domain.Jan. 17, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the last few days I’ve been watching yet a ...

A Dangerous Year | John Michael Greer

Panel with striding lion. Period: Neo-Babylonian. Date: ca. 604–562 B.C. Geography: Mesopotamia, Babylon (modern Hillah) Culture: Babylonian. Medium: Ceramic, glaze. Dimensions: H. 38 1/4 in. (97.2 c ...