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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
A Vision: The Completed Symbol 1
In our journey through the neglected kingdom of Yeats’s A Vision we have now reached one of the points where many previous explorers decided to give up and go home. Not coincidentally, this is also where we move from the material Yeats put into the 1925 version to some of the new material he added…
Energy: Predicaments and Prospects Revisited
A few weeks ago, as regular readers will remember, I glanced back twenty years to my earliest and least accurate overview of the future of industrial civilization. My intention was to use that backward look as a way to talk about where we were, where we are, and where we’re headed as our society moves…
A Tome of Forbidden Technologies
Once again we’re near the end of a month with five Wednesdays, and as regular readers of this blog know well, that means that readers got to nominate and vote on the subject of the fifth Wednesday post. This time the theme that won the contest was a glance back over the landscape of rejected…