I wonder if the collective thinking mood that you allude to may be changing, at least a little bit. Yes what you have to say is not what we were raised hearing – anywhere far as I can tell – but it is not being spoken in Enochian, as it were.ītw – I tackled Homo Colossus on my blog this week for those readers that might be interested.

Clarity of mind and resolute action does seem to grow given sufficient time for mulling things over. From this understanding of my own contemplations strengths and weaknesses I take hope. I look forward to Twilight’s Last Gleaming with relish. On the other hand I find my story telling mind is very at home in these things. Seeing the immediate threat but not losing sight of the larger descent – that is exactly the sort of third way cognition we industrialized humans seem to find so inhospitable. My short term, fight or flight circuits seems to insist on asking what is going to happen NOW and when that is dark and dangerous the sirens wail and the lights go off and everything else gets masticated into simple categories of black and white. I was one of those who asked the pointed question about timelines in last week’s comments and looking back on our exchange I see the rather simple process you propose escaped my notice yet again. It is indeed difficult to break the mental shackles that want to insist on an either-or instead of both-and (to use Robert A. I got chills.Īs a long time reader of your books and blog I can honestly say it has taken years before your sketch of the most probable future really sank in. I'm feeling echoing loss at the unavoidable realization that 'someday'- such a huge crushing 'someday'- is already now. Though of course the first round has already happened, just as poor Fred probably had something brewing inside when I bought his Friskies last week. I want to say, nah, someday, but not yet, not now. But when you put a date on the beginnings of things- tracing the Ebola epidemic changing into a pandemic as soon as January 2015, and on from there- it seems impossibly close. I find JMG's predictions completely, terrifyingly plausible- just ordinary history, just as all critters eventually return to the earth. Not that I'm equating the collapse of the global industrial civilization with the death of a cat, but it kind of works as an analogy. I always knew, of course, that he would die, you know, some day, but last week when I was buying cat food it would have seemed unthinkable that he wouldn't finish out the bag. Four days ago he seemed fine, two days ago he was sick, now he's gone. That being the case, getting used to what ordinary history brings may be a highly useful habit to cultivate just now. As I noted above, I’m aware that true believers in progress insist that this can’t happen to us, but a growing number of people have noticed that the Progress Fairy got her pink slip some time ago, and ordinary history has taken her place as the arbiter of human affairs. So does the decline and fall of civilizations that deplete their resource bases and wreck the ecological cycles that support them. In the real world, in the course of ordinary history, these things happen. All I’m suggesting is that events like the ones I’ve outlined are likely to occur as industrial civilization stumbles down the curve of decline and fall. Whether the Ebola epidemic spins out of control or not, whether the United States undergoes a fascist takeover or runs headlong into some other disaster, whether China or some other nation becomes the stabilizing hegemon in the next period of relative peace-all these are anyone’s guess.

I probably need to repeat that this is the kind of future I expect, not the specific future I foresee the details are illustrative, not predictive.

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