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Terms of Surrender | John Michael Greer

Aug. 28, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Today’s debates over hydrofracturing (“fracking”) oil-bearing shales, the theme of last week’s post, have dimensions that go well beyond the world of ritual theate ...

Well and Truly Fracked | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerAug. 21, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- The reduction of contemporary debates about the future to ritual theater, the theme of last week’s post, isn’t limited to the specific technologi ...

The Ritual Theater of Progress | John Michael Greer

Aug. 14, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- This habit of drafting my ideas on the future of industrial society right out here in public has its disadvantages, to be sure, but there are benefits as well. One ...

Not Written in the Stars | John Michael Greer

Aug. 7, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- When Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God -- in less metaphorical terms, the collapse of the Christian faith that had provided the foundations for Europe ...

On the Far Side of Progress | John Michael Greer

July 31, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- The pointless debates over evolution discussed in last week’s Archdruid Report post have any number of equivalents all through contemporary industrial culture. Pic ...

The Quest for a Common Language | John Michael Greer

July 24, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- It was probably inevitable that my comment last week about the pseudoconservative crusade against Darwinian evolution in today’s America would attract more attenti ...

History and Hope (John Michael Greer)

Nov. 5, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- I’d meant to talk in this week’s Archdruid Report post about the peak oil conference I attended last weekend in suburban Detroit. Still, that will have to wait for ...

Arguments from Ignorance (John Michael Greer)

Oct. 29, 2008 (The Archdruid Report) -- For some time now I’ve been wondering how to bring up a certain habit of thought that, as I see it, forms one of the taproots feeding the contemporary crisis o ...

The Tyranny of the Immediate (John Michael Greer)

Oct., 22, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the great challenges that has to be faced in any attempt to make sense of history while it’s happening is the misleading impact of short-term trends. While ...

Briefing for the Descent (John Michael Greer)

By John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Sept. 7, 2006 -- As evidence piles up for the reality of peak oil, and more and more people start to grapple with an issue that challenges almost every a ...