What We Should Have Learned from the Christchurch Massacre One of the things that we should have learned over the last few days, the hard way, from the Christchurch massacre, is this: we need take online hate seriously. Lethally seriously. Because it has real consequences. We are giving it a free pass, treating it as … Read more
What Global Collapse Means — and Why Its Risks Are Skyrocketing Lately, I’ve been discussing how we are beginning to run the risk of irreversible civilizational collapse now. Five great waves of collapse are merging to form a kind of tsunami — economic, political, social, cultural, and psychological collapse…
Humanity’s Path Divides Into Irreversible Collapse and Ongoing Progress, Right Now We have, by my reckoning, about a decade. Until what? For what? To right humanity’s ship, my friends. Do you think we are anywhere near ready for that task? Are we even undertaking it — let alone aware of it as the challenge of … Read more
Or, How The Opposite of Capitalism Isn’t Socialism — It’s My Local Record Store Here’s tiny question. Across the street from me, a while ago,a little record shop, with a charming little cafe in the back, opened up. Confession time, my friends love it. They go there to have little coffees and buy some vinyl … Read more
Why Capitalism Led to Collapse, Not Prosperity and Maturity We’re beginning to have a long overdue debate these days: what’s the point of billionaires, anyways? Do societies need billionaires, or do billionaires need societies? Which one is more true? Whether we couch it in terms of higher tax rates or new kinds…
(Why) The Universal Mother is the Antidote to the Authoritarian Father Here’s a funny and strange thing. Have you noticed how conservatives are helplessly attracted to AOC — utterly beguiled by her, unable to resist her magnetic pull, tumbling into her orbit like flaming meteors — but are also, at the very same time, hopelessly … Read more
Why America and Britain Are Self-Destructing (And What the World Can Learn From it) It’s a striking fact of today’s world that the two rich societies in shocking, swift, sharp decline are America and Britain. Nowhere else in the world, for example, are real income, life expectancy, happiness, and trust all plummeting, apart from maybe … Read more
How Apple and Amazon Test Two Very Different Kinds of Capitalism There I was, furiously hammering out yet another daily essay, when my “O” key popped out of its cozy little square in defiant rage, flew through the air while I watched in horrified amazement, and — wham!!! — hit me squarely in the nose. … Read more
How the Worst Idea America Ever Had Came to Rule the World There’s a force that’s ripping the world apart. Slashing through democracy, the future, and society. Reducing the planet to a smoking, melted wreck. Around the globe, people are revolting against it. In Paris, anger against this force has united the left and right … Read more
What Happens When a Nation’s Taught to Think What’s Right is the Enemy of What’s Good I spent a gentle and quiet Thanksgiving with family, watching Christmas movies and overeating — away from the internet. Yawning and checking the headlines this morning, I was startled, horrified, to see the picture above — toddlers being…
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