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 ...

The Next Twilight of Environmentalism | John Michael Greer

Aug. 7, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Well, it’s about to happen all over again. I’ve been wondering how soon a certain marriage of convenience in contemporary cultural politics would come messily apart, a ...

The Twilight of the Monofuture | John Michael Greer

July 31, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’m pleased to say that my post here two weeks ago, on the way that belief in progress depends on a certain kind of historical amnesia, got a lively and mostly though ...

Progress and Amnesia | John Michael Greer

Giant laser walrus. Source: worldwidewalrusweb.comJuly 17, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to launch straight into a discussion of peak oil this week, and talk about how the ongoing attempt to extr ...

How to Pay for It All: An Option the Candidates Missed | Ellen Brown

July 10, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another t ...

The Long View | John Michael Greer

July 3, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- For more than three years now, the themes of these online essays of mine -- here, and in my previous blog The Archdruid Report -- have had a relatively tight focus on ...

Libra: Facebook’s Audacious Bid for Global Monetary Control | Ellen Brown

June 27, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies. This has now been demonstrated -- not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the ...

The Flight To The Fringes, And What Waits There | John Michael Greer

June 19, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Several of my readers alerted me over the last week to an online essay by Christian writer Rod Dreher on the rising popularity of malevolent magic and demonolatry (th ...

The Path Between the Pillars | John Michael Greer

June 5, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- The issue we’ve been discussing for the last several months -- the conviction on the part of well-to-do Americans, and people of the industrial world’s privileged clas ...

Delusions of Omnipotence | John Michael Greer

Wizard puppet by Neil Tackaberry, Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)May 29, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- I hope my readers won’t object at this point if our conversation takes an excursion into the outer reaches of Americ ...