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Tag Archives: Industrial Civilization
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
By Craig Collins Source: CounterPunch As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies collapse and civilizations die. Meanwhile, a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Biodiversity, capitalism, civilization, Collapse, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, environment, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, Industrial Civilization, Invasive Species, Jared Diamond, John Michael Greer, Peak Oil, politics, Progress, society, Steven Pinker, war
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Abandoning the Ship of Fools: Postmodernist and Wildist Responses to Civilization
By Jeriah Bowser Source: The Hampton Institute Once upon a time there was a people who lived with the Sea; living in connection, intimacy, and harmony with their aquatic environment for a very long time. Then one day a dangerous … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Environment, History, Philosophy, society, Technology
Tagged anarcho-primitivists, anti-modernists, Industrial Civilization, Leftism, Michel Foucault, Plato, Postmodernism, Progress, rewilders, Ship of Fools, technology, Theodore Adorno, Theodore Kaczynski, Unabomber, Wildism
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Oil and Money – Lessons Learned
This is a concluding post for an excellent 7 part long-form series featured on the Hipcrime Vocab blog. While this serves as an adequate synopsis of what was covered, I highly recommend the series for it’s depth and scope starting … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Labor, Militarization, Social Control, society, Sociology, war, Work
Tagged automation, Automobiles, Carbon Emissions, Cars, Coal, Crumbling Infrastructure, Debt Crisis, Dmitry Orlov, economic inequality, Economics, economy, Environmental Crisis, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Gas, Immigration, Industrial Civilization, Market Speculation, Mixed Economy, Neoliberalism, oil, Peak Oil, petrodollar, Petroleum, Wealth Disparity
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Rope-a-Dope
By Rodney Swearengin Source: Adbusters During the second round of the 1974 epic boxing match billed as the Rumble in the Jungle, Mohammad Ali leaned extraordinarily far back upon the ropes as George Foreman relentlessly bludgeoned Ali’s body and arms. … Continue reading
Ex Machina, et al, and the Metaphysics of Computer Consciousness
By Steven Harp Source: Reality Sandwich ( ex machina from the phrase “deus ex machina” meaning “god from the machine”) It seems unquestioned in the world today that science is on the verge of creating consciousness with computers. In a … Continue reading
Confronting Industrialism
By Derrick Jensen Source: Counterpunch.org Some of the most important questions confronting us are: what should we do about this culture’s industrial wastes, from greenhouse gases to pesticides to ocean microplastics? Can the capitalists clean up the messes they create? … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, conditioning, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Health, History, Psychology, Social Control, society
Tagged Corporate Criminals, corporate psychopaths, Counterpunch.org, Derrick Jensen, Environmental Disasters, externalities, Industrial Civilization, Industrial Waste, Industrialism, pollution
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