Jesse's Café Américain: The Crash of 1929 - But somewhere, deep down, they knew the party was over.

Jesse's Café Américain: The Crash of 1929 - But somewhere, deep down, they knew the party was over.

Hey La, Hey La, my ....Well, any way, John Michael is Back

During the last three months, while on hiatus from blogging, I’ve looked back over the eleven-year run of The Archdruid Report. As my regular readers know, the point of that prolonged experiment in online prose was my attempt to explore the primary historical fact of our time—the accelerating decline and impending fall of industrial civilization—from every angle I could think of, including some I never imagined addressing at all when I started blogging back in 2006. 

Those changes of angle happened partly because it gets boring to talk about the same thing in the same way over and over again, of course, but there was a deeper factor as well. I started off discussing what I thought was the straightforward point that you can’t fuel infinite economic growth by drawing down a finite resource base. Sounds like basic common sense, doesn’t it? It did to me, too, but it nonetheless fielded a remarkable amount of pushback. A great many people seemed to be unable to get their minds around the fact that each ton of coal, barrel of petroleum, or cubic foot of natural gas burned to fuel their lifestyles really does go away forever.

So...Head on Over an read the rest

 http://www.ecosophia.net/the-twilight-of-anthropolatry/

For those who

Friends come over

Gluten free food is requested.  Now, I think that there are people out there who are afflicted with Celiac's and it is required, and there are folks out there who are just silly and use it as a trend.  This caveat is made because I don't have the ability to determine which condition applies here, and the recipes need be worked out as a proper host should.

Dough:
• 3 cups gluten-free flour
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tbl baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup butter, cold
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 tsp garlic powder

Make it up like you would a proper biscuit dough, with as little handling as you can get away with to 

Verelendung (pauperization) and Zusammenbruch (collapse)

A little bit of wisdom can slip through the damnedest places.  

I can really take a lot of Marxism with a grain of salt.  While the description of the antecedent conditions to a change (it doesn't always have to be a revolution) is pretty bang-on.  But the solutions that it offers are pretty damn sad.

But it really tapped a vein of the need to go out with a bang.  The folks who support Marxism/Leninism seem to tend toward the idea of a revolution as a good thing.  Well buckaroos, change usually is not what was planned, and change usually doesn't end up benefiting those who seek it most earnestly.

But what are you if you don't think that apocalypse is coming "just around the corner" and you don't think that the elites have a firm grip on the situation and the idea of the prole's rising up to take charge leaves you queasy?