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The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse

The Old Poet had been preparing himself and his community for fifty years. When the Collapse hit they already had their own schools, wineries, mills, gardens, power, and two generations of experience. Nonetheless the Collapse was traumatic, if not on the scale of the urban disasters. (more)

7-26-10
Dale Pendell's blog
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The Twilight of Money

John Michael Greer

Economic abstractions keep functioning only so long as actual goods and services exist to be bought and sold. The movement toward abstraction goes so far that the concrete realities are neglected. In the end the realities trickle away unnoticed, until a shock of some kind strikes the tower of abstractions built atop the void the realities once filled, and the whole structure tumbles to the ground. (more)