2013: The Space Between Stories

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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.

I Am… We Are… It Is: Burning Man’s Radical Vision

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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

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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

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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.

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