There’s no better evidence that the stock market has no connection to the lives of Americans than the fact that the Dow has been tanking of late. As of the close on 9/9/11 it’s down about 14% over 2 months. But in that time it’s gone down, then up, and down, and down some more, … Continue Reading
So suppose that, for a variety of reasons laid out here and elsewhere, we’re looking at a low-energy future. And suppose that we want to avoid the fallacy that Sharon Astyk calls the Klingon/Cylon dilemma, or what John Michael Greer calls the narrative of apocalypse. What do we do? That is, what’s a productive way … Continue Reading