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Last time , I talked about worry as a driver to action, and how to evaluate problems as to whether they are worth worrying about or not. I...

In a recent post , I talked about how most people are loath to discuss collapse, some even believing that talking about it makes it more l...

Up until a few weeks ago, I was spending a lot of time on Facebook. So much so that more important things--writing this blog, as well as t...

Lake Huron Shore at Kincardine, Feb 16, 2017 For quite a while now I've been promising that I'd get around to talking about col...

This time we'll be taking a quick look at James C. Scott's book Seeing Like a State, How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Con...

This time we'll be taking a quick look at a book by James C. Scott's book The Art of Not Being Governed, an Anarchist History of ...

In my last post I started a review of Joseph Tainter's book The Collapse of Complex Societies . In that post, we saw Tainter devel...