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The Revolt of the Imagination, Part Three: Co-Creating the Future

John Michael Greer352 Comments

As I write these words, the Russo-Ukrainian war has raged for a week.  To a great many people, crises like these make the theme of my recent posts here—the potential of the human imagination—seem wholly irrelevant.  That’s a common mistake, but it’s still a mistake. To begin with, let’s please remember that wars and the…

The Revolt of the Imagination, Part Two: No More Secondhand Futures

John Michael Greer286 Comments

In a post here two weeks ago I discussed the disastrous failure of imagination on the part of the industrial world’s governing classes. Since then—well, let’s just say that for connoisseurs of elite cluelessness, it’s a target-rich environment out there. We’ll choose one such target more or less at random.  Last week’s news was briefly…