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.
So...Head on Over an read the restThose 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.
http://www.ecosophia.net/the-twilight-of-anthropolatry/
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Any thoughts on why he torpedoed his old site.
Probably not the reason, but he just called the election for Trump just prior to the election and did a very good job of pointing out the plight of the common folk. But that was bound to get him in trouble with much of his target audience going forward.
His belief structure is much more esoteric than I think some of his followers realize. I have some of the old Gnosis magazines where he is a contributing author writing on geometric/hermetic fencing. But he is also clever enough to get his readership to write short story collections for him to sell.
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