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The End of the Dream | John Michael Greer

Feb. 5, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- It may not be quite accurate to say that it’s all over but the shouting, but something of that sense seems to be catching on in America these days. The collapse of the ...

To the Shores of a Surging Ocean | John Michael Greer

By Moehre1992 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12135443Dec. 25, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I hope all of my readers who, like me, celebrated the solstice on Satu ...

'Wind is Changing!' | John Michael Greer

The "Wodwoses" have been described as a variant of the Green man, seen here on a medieval misericord in Ludlow. The Drúedain are a fictional race of Men which were counted amongst the Edain, who made ...

A Place For Books | John Michael Greer

Dec. 4, 2019 (Eco.Sophia.net) -- As one of my readers pointed out last week -- tip of the hat to Patricia Mathews -- we’ve now embarked on the most sacred season of the American year, the season of S ...

Dancers at the End of Time, Part Three: A Mortal Splendor | John Michael Greer

Nov. 13, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Some of my critics like to insist that I never admit that I’m wrong. Those readers who have been following me for any length of time know that this isn’t true, but li ...

Dancers at the End of Time, Part Two: 'Facts are the Enemies of Truth' | John Michael Greer

Nov. 6, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week, in Part One of this post, we explored the strange way that many people these days seem to have lost the ability to think clearly, or at all, about certain p ...

Dancers at the End of Time, Part One: The Flight from Reason | John Michael Greer

Oct. 30, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- For quite some time now I’ve been mulling over how to talk about one of the strangest features of our era -- the way that certain very simple kinds of reasoning have ...

Heating Up The Political Climate | John Michael Greer

Oct. 16, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Yes, we need to talk about climate change again, and it’s probably necessary to start with a point I’ve made on this blog several times already: anthropogenic climate ...

Waiting for the Next Panic | John Michael Greer

Oct. 2, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- When I first started blogging more than 13 years ago, the main focus of my online essays was peak oil. It was a good time to discuss such things. The price of crude oi ...

The Fall of the Chosen Ones | John Michael Greer

Sept 4, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- I’ve long since stopped trying to second-guess where to look for insights into the crisis of our time and the first stirrings of the future ahead. I read a lot of news and ...

The Dream of a Managed Society | John Michael Greer

Plato. Luni marble, copy of the portrait made by Silanion ca. 370 BC for the Academia in Athens. From the sacred area in Largo Argentina.August 21, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- My essay here two weeks ago ...