"Something has gone very wrong. That’s the message that’s rumbling like distant thunder through the crawlspaces of the American imagination just now. Something has gone very wrong, and those whose public claim to power is their supposed ability to manage things so that they don’t go wrong—the captains of finance and brokers of political power who move from photo op to press conference to high-level meeting and back again—don’t know how to fix it." - http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/rumbling-of-distant-thunder.html
There's lots to report on right now, with 15 acres in Basse Normandie now being tackled by three of the Palmer Clan and by a couple more in the not too distant future, this blog will be able to focus more on that project!
Until then though, It's important to stay focused on the mood of the blogosphere and coincidentally this week both Dmitry Orlov (http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk/) and John Michael Greer (http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk) have written articles about "The Age of Limits", a gathering of Peak Oil peeps, who wanted to fundamentally discuss what is happening post-peak instead of focusing on placing blame for the current predicament.
Keep alert, keep reading, question everything!
Showing posts with label Arch Druid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arch Druid. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Me Versus Machines!
I'm always keen to get my Wednesday/Thursday posting by John Michael Greer (The Archdruid Report). I hope you all have dipped into his writings over the past couple of years as his clearly expressed thoughts have provided quite a considerable amount of solace during difficult times. There are many writers/commentators out there who fear a changing world and can only see disaster ahead (Kunstler, Orlov etc), contrary to this position is Greer.
With his background in Druidry he has facilitated some excellent discussions on his blog about what a energy descent will/could look like, but goes further and provides really pertinent resources for helping anyone deal with a changing future and how to retool.
http://www.culturalconservers.org/library.php
http://www.greenwizards.org/?q=forum
If you are new to him I advise going back a few months and reading some earlier posts as each week follows from the last. This weeks post was interesting, simply as it made me think about my previous comments on creativity and resourcefulness as a focus for educating my little pudding Freya.
"There are any number of other examples of things that human beings can do, or can learn to do, that will fill essential needs in a deindustrializing or fully deindustrialized world, when permanent shortages of concentrated energy suitable for powering machines makes the vast majority of today’s technology useless except as scrap. A significant number of them are still being practiced, or—like the Art of Memory—can be revived with relative ease from written sources dating from the Renaissance or, in some cases, more recently still. A great many more will need to be invented, or reinvented, in the years ahead. The supposedly serious thinkers of our time are unlikely to contribute anything to that task; in contemporary industrial civilization, as in every other human culture, the basic qualification that makes thinkers respectable is an unthinking acceptance of the basic myths of their era. Nowadays, the myth of progress is one of those basic myths, and the myth of the machine stands right beside it."
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/02/recovery-of-human.html
With his background in Druidry he has facilitated some excellent discussions on his blog about what a energy descent will/could look like, but goes further and provides really pertinent resources for helping anyone deal with a changing future and how to retool.
http://www.culturalconservers.org/library.php
http://www.greenwizards.org/?q=forum
If you are new to him I advise going back a few months and reading some earlier posts as each week follows from the last. This weeks post was interesting, simply as it made me think about my previous comments on creativity and resourcefulness as a focus for educating my little pudding Freya.
"There are any number of other examples of things that human beings can do, or can learn to do, that will fill essential needs in a deindustrializing or fully deindustrialized world, when permanent shortages of concentrated energy suitable for powering machines makes the vast majority of today’s technology useless except as scrap. A significant number of them are still being practiced, or—like the Art of Memory—can be revived with relative ease from written sources dating from the Renaissance or, in some cases, more recently still. A great many more will need to be invented, or reinvented, in the years ahead. The supposedly serious thinkers of our time are unlikely to contribute anything to that task; in contemporary industrial civilization, as in every other human culture, the basic qualification that makes thinkers respectable is an unthinking acceptance of the basic myths of their era. Nowadays, the myth of progress is one of those basic myths, and the myth of the machine stands right beside it."
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/02/recovery-of-human.html
Thursday, 13 May 2010
After Money
I've been resisting posting the likes of The Arch Druid report as it deals with economics and politics, which is all encompassing but a kind of distraction from what i want this blog to be about. But, the interesting and quite prescient details of his recent blog entry i think should get an airing considering we are looking at ways of mitigating the coming (currently happening) descending use of energy.
"Most people won’t have the option of separating themselves completely from the money economy for many years to come; as long as today’s governments continue to function, they will demand money for taxes, and money will continue to be the gateway resource for many goods and services, including some that will be very difficult to do without. Still, there’s no reason why distancing oneself from the tertiary economy has to be an all-or-nothing thing. Any step toward the direct production of goods and services for one’s own use, with one’s own labor, using resources under one’s own direct control, is a step toward the world that will emerge after money; it’s also a safety cushion against the disintegration of the money economy going on around us."(My Emphasis)
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/05/after-money.html
"Most people won’t have the option of separating themselves completely from the money economy for many years to come; as long as today’s governments continue to function, they will demand money for taxes, and money will continue to be the gateway resource for many goods and services, including some that will be very difficult to do without. Still, there’s no reason why distancing oneself from the tertiary economy has to be an all-or-nothing thing. Any step toward the direct production of goods and services for one’s own use, with one’s own labor, using resources under one’s own direct control, is a step toward the world that will emerge after money; it’s also a safety cushion against the disintegration of the money economy going on around us."(My Emphasis)
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/05/after-money.html
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