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The Revolt of the Imagination, Part One: Notes on Belbury Syndrome | John Michael Greer
Feb. 2, 2022 (EcoSophia.net) --Maybe it’s true that life really does imitate literature. Over the last week or so, certainly, a detail from one of my favorite works of imaginative fiction played out ...
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The Unmanageable Future | John Michael Greer
Jan. 19, 2022 (EcoSophia.net) -- Explorers into unknown territory face plenty of risks. One that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves is the possibility that they know less about the country ...
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Tomorrowland Has Fallen! | John Michael Greer
Jan. 5, 2020 (EcoSophia) -- Has anyone else noticed just how odd it is that so many people on the progressive end of our cultural landscape are frantically trying to convince everyone that the ...
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Notes On The Lemurian Deviation | John Michael Greer
Dec. 29, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- It’s been more or less standard practice on this blog for a while now that, whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, I ask my readers what they want to hear ...
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On Domed Cities and Doomed Dreams | John Michael Greer
Dec. 15, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Recently I’ve been reading the writings of the American philosopher William James. You won’t see much discussion of his work among philosophers nowadays, and that’s ...
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An Empire of Dreams | John Michael Greer
Dec. 1, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There’s a fond belief among the comfortable classes of our time, and for that matter every other time, that the future can be arranged in advance through reasonable ...
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A Season for Giving | John Michael Greer
Nov. 17, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- As I write these words, Christmas is a little more than a month away. Normally I don’t look forward to that December day with any noteworthy enthusiasm. Granted, ...
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The Next European War | John Michael Greer
Nov. 3, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- The notion that history has nothing to teach us is one of the most pervasive beliefs in modern industrial society. It’s also one of the most misguided. Sure, we’ve ...
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The End of the Dream | John Michael Greer
Oct. 20, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are times when the winds that shape the future blow strong enough to be heard over the jabber of everyday life, and this is one of those times. For a while now ...
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That Untraversed Land | John Michael Greer
Oct. 6 ,2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- It’s been just over a month since I started talking about how the predictions set out in 1972 by The Limits to Growth were coming true in our time. Since then the ...
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The Way of Participation: A Response to Paul Kingsnorth | John Michael Greer
Paul Kingsnorth, 2011. By Navjoat Kingsnorth - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0Sept. 29, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- A fair number of my readers also follow the writings of the English writer Paul Kingsnorth, who ...
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