A great many people laud traditional values and lifestyles, but they leave out the hard part: it take a heck of a lot of work, effort and sacrifice. I’m calling the next ten years The Do-It-Yourself Decade, as whatever we want to happen will increasingly be up to us to do for ourselves. After decades of fostering passive […]
The artificial hill of pottery shards is puny and localized; the consequences of our system will bring down the system in ways the system is completely blind to. Charles Hugh Smith, Substack We’re all familiar with the plot device of the self-destruct sequence counting down while our hero / heroine frantically tries to find the […]
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith by Charles Hugh Smith You see the irony here: the more successful the old solutions were, the greater our compulsion to cling to them even as they fail. Humans use inductive reasoning to solve problems. If a solution fixed a problem in the past, we assume it will solve the problem again. This is […]