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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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