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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? (more)

Burning Man is this 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. (more)

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. (more)

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. (more)