Month: December 2025

The Rowling Effect

John Michael Greer293 Comments

Yes, I know I was supposed to go on this week to discuss downward mobility as a way to freedom, the next of the themes that took the three top spots in this month’s fifth Wednesday competition. It’s a topical subject, not least on account of the wrenching changes now under way in the political…

December 2025 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)…

Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance

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As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I put up on the final Wednesday. Sometimes most of my readers vote for a single theme, sometimes there’s a quiet little contest…

A Vision: The First Quarter of the Wheel, Part One

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With this post we begin a detailed examination of the twenty-eight phases of Yeats’s symbolic lunar cycle. Each phase is a typical personality, as well as a typical stage in the course of a life, of a cultural or artistic movement, of a nation’s history, and of the rise and fall of an entire civilization.…

Situationism: The Road from Raswashingsputin

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Two weeks ago, in our ongoing exploration of the ideas of the Situationist International and their application to the ongoing crisis of industrial society, we ended up face to face with a point of immense importance. I didn’t develop that point in that earlier post, partly because it took the rest of the post to…