2013: The Space Between Stories
Every culture has a Story of the People to give meaning to the
world. We are
entering a new phase in the dissolution of our Story and of the edifice of civilization built on
top of it.
We do not have a new story yet. Here and there we see patterns emerging, but the new mythos has not yet emerged. We
will abide for a time in the space between stories.
Sacred Economics: Chapter 24, Conclusion: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Tell Us Is Possible (Pt. 25)
Now that I have entered the realm of speculation, I would like to
describe a few more aspects of sacred economy that I believe will unfold
over the next two centuries. This book has described developments that
we can create in the next twenty years, and in some cases the next five.
What about the next two hundred years?
I Am… We Are… It Is: Burning Man’s Radical Vision
Burning Man’s founder explores how it can be a wild party on the one hand, and the most public-spirited city in America, on the other. The essential cause of this is the giving of gifts. A gift economy is founded on principles that are diametrically opposed to those that dominate our consumer culture.
The Onset of Catabolic Collapse
Complex societies cycle back and forth between
building up, or anabolism, and breaking down, or catabolism. It's possible at this point to provide a fairly exact date
for the onset of catabolic collapse in the United States of America.
The Incorruptibles: A Requiem for Civilization
From
the oil shocks of the 1970s to the savings & loan crisis of the 1980s,
the dotcom bubble of the 1990s, and today's mortgage meltdown,
systemic crises are larger, more devastating, longer lasting, and closer
together, and our so-called leaders are in denial.