Public Health: Slow Motion Disaster Revisited

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Our ongoing review of my first and least accurate set of predictions about the immediate future of industrial society has had its ups and downs, its hits and misses. The post I’m assessing this time around has its share of both, and certain other problems that have a story of their own to tell. The…

A Vision: The Completed Symbol 3

John Michael Greer38 Comments

Last month’s passage through the deep places of Yeats’s A Vision focused on the most abstruse and difficult part of the entire system, the relation between the four faculties and the four principles. The faculties are relatively easy to understand, since we encounter them every day; the principles, being the higher or deeper spiritual realities…

Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting Revisited

John Michael Greer285 Comments

Our review of my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the future of industrial society, published twenty years ago in the first months of my old blog The Archdruid Report, has covered quite a bit of territory at this point, and touched on most of the themes that turned out to be central…

Notes on Magical Geography

John Michael Greer288 Comments

As my regular readers know well, whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to my commentariat to nominate and vote on the topic for the fifth Wednesday post. Sometimes the results are entertaining, sometimes they startle me, but it’s only happened once before that, as the votes came in and one topic…

September 2026 Open Post

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This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no profanity, no sales pitches, no trolling, no rudeness, no paid propagandizing, no long screeds proclaiming the infallible truth of fill in the blank, no endless rehashes of questions I’ve already answered)…

Economics: Hallucinated Wealth Revisited

John Michael Greer264 Comments

Our ongoing review of my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the future of industrial society, published twenty years ago in the first few months of my original blog The Archdruid Report, has touched on a few complete bellyflops and a fair number of near misses. When I wrote those posts, as I’ve…

A Vision: The Completed Symbol 2

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Our journey into the deep places of Yeats’s A Vision now leads us further into the realm of the Principles. To recap, the Faculties—Will, Mask, Creative Mind, and Body of Fate—define each individual incarnation. The Principles—Husk, Passionate Body, Spirit, and Celestial Body—are the foundations on which the Faculties are built; they belong to the Daimon…

Economics: The Y2K Fallacy Revisited

John Michael Greer371 Comments

Let’s continue looking back at my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the future, published twenty years ago in the first months of my original blog The Archdruid Report. The ongoing depletion of fossil fuel energy, the shared theme of the last two posts we examined, was the main driver of the changes…

August 2026 Open Post

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This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no profanity, no sales pitches, no trolling, no rudeness, no paid propagandizing, no long screeds proclaiming the infallible truth of fill in the blank, no endless rehashes of questions I’ve already answered)…

Energy: Preparations and Possibilities Revisited

John Michael Greer343 Comments

Last month we started the process of looking back twenty years at my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the deindustrial future, with an eye to learning from the mistakes and successes of my work in that earlier era, and drawing some conclusions for where we can go from here. This week I’ll…