I love to write and mail letters. It's a lost art, but I love crafting letters to people. No one never writes me back though. I am so glad I was around for the 70s, which was the last decade with a little sanity - no cellphones and no internet. I could range up to 20 miles with my bicycle and backpack. I would hang out at the model shop and listen to the WWII vets tell stories about the tanks and such. Internet put that old hobby shop out of business. It's a shame.
Ok you’ve inspired me to quit browsing social media and return to my 90s self who always had a good book with me, or a journal and pen, with which to fill time.
I would totally recommend it - it's amazing how much more interesting real life is than whatever's showing on social media which is somehow always exactly the same
To add to what you've said, electronics production is held hostage even more by the availability of rare earth elements than it is by availability of cheap concentrated energy (which comes only from fossil fuels). As JMG has noted elsewhere, the twentieth century in general, and the age of electronics in particular, was/is a temporary blip in human history. BTW, what made you come to India?
I like the ideas you present from this book, so I looked into the author and read another article by him about Syndicalism. If you created a society like the one in the book would Syndicalism be the economic structure? Also, the majority of the works by John Michael Greer have to do with the Occult, I find that to be bizarre. What are your thoughts about his preoccupation with the occult and does this affect how seriously we take his views.
Sure- he recently did a series of blog posts about the Occult and the election of Donald Trump- most people don't know that the two were highly related. In fact, the day Hilary Clinton collapsed in public just happened to be after a group of black magicians cast a curse on her to collapse in public. I admit that I don't dabble too deep into his work on Magic but I also will not in any way shape or form dismiss it as irrelevant. Check out the blog ecosophia
The occult has almost nothing to do with politics. The “occult” are just esoteric teachings that reveal our true spiritual identities. Tantra teaches this Gnosticism teaches this the western mystery tradition teaches this etc.
You are romanticizing past technologies here. Print media was a huge energy waste. Tonnes of trees where turned into catalogues that had to be reprinted the next week. Businesses would also just print tonnes of unnecessary memos. Most people that now spend their time on Twitter spent their time reading The Sun. I rather predict that people would voluntarily go back to a time where computers and the internet are rather expensive things for people who know what they are doing. Ordinary people having a limited and mediated access to it.
I love to write and mail letters. It's a lost art, but I love crafting letters to people. No one never writes me back though. I am so glad I was around for the 70s, which was the last decade with a little sanity - no cellphones and no internet. I could range up to 20 miles with my bicycle and backpack. I would hang out at the model shop and listen to the WWII vets tell stories about the tanks and such. Internet put that old hobby shop out of business. It's a shame.
Ok you’ve inspired me to quit browsing social media and return to my 90s self who always had a good book with me, or a journal and pen, with which to fill time.
I would totally recommend it - it's amazing how much more interesting real life is than whatever's showing on social media which is somehow always exactly the same
The world will enter a neo-medieval existence for those who survive.
To add to what you've said, electronics production is held hostage even more by the availability of rare earth elements than it is by availability of cheap concentrated energy (which comes only from fossil fuels). As JMG has noted elsewhere, the twentieth century in general, and the age of electronics in particular, was/is a temporary blip in human history.
BTW, what made you come to India?
He ran away from his student loans lol and married his wife from there.
I like the ideas you present from this book, so I looked into the author and read another article by him about Syndicalism. If you created a society like the one in the book would Syndicalism be the economic structure? Also, the majority of the works by John Michael Greer have to do with the Occult, I find that to be bizarre. What are your thoughts about his preoccupation with the occult and does this affect how seriously we take his views.
Sure- he recently did a series of blog posts about the Occult and the election of Donald Trump- most people don't know that the two were highly related. In fact, the day Hilary Clinton collapsed in public just happened to be after a group of black magicians cast a curse on her to collapse in public. I admit that I don't dabble too deep into his work on Magic but I also will not in any way shape or form dismiss it as irrelevant. Check out the blog ecosophia
The occult has almost nothing to do with politics. The “occult” are just esoteric teachings that reveal our true spiritual identities. Tantra teaches this Gnosticism teaches this the western mystery tradition teaches this etc.
Greers book reeks of what I call "Hermenutical Gangsterism", with that said I will say no more on this so called "book". Your move Haag lol
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You are romanticizing past technologies here. Print media was a huge energy waste. Tonnes of trees where turned into catalogues that had to be reprinted the next week. Businesses would also just print tonnes of unnecessary memos. Most people that now spend their time on Twitter spent their time reading The Sun.
I rather predict that people would voluntarily go back to a time where computers and the internet are rather expensive things for people who know what they are doing. Ordinary people having a limited and mediated access to it.