John Michael Greer has a phenomenal way of looking at the present through the historical lens. He posts every Wednesday and this latest post is a gem if you have a few minutes to read it.
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-great-rehash-part-four-a-hill-to-die-on/
Here's an excerpt:
Fast forward to 2016. The Brexit vote in Britain and the elec…
John Michael Greer has a phenomenal way of looking at the present through the historical lens. He posts every Wednesday and this latest post is a gem if you have a few minutes to read it.
Fast forward to 2016. The Brexit vote in Britain and the election of Donald Trump in the US put the clerisy of the industrial world on notice that a very large number of people no longer trusted them and would not take their advice any longer. The result, as we all remember, was a pair of world-class tantrums. How dare ordinary people doubt the expert opinions of their betters? Of course that didn’t exactly go over well among the ordinary people in question, and the result was the increasingly hostile armed standoff between the clerisy and its supporters, on the one hand, and those people who had lost faith in the clerisy on the other. Since the clerisy was doing nothing to give people a reason to have renewed faith in their competence—shrieking insults at your critics isn’t an effective way to do this, after all—stresses rose to the breaking point.
John Michael Greer has a phenomenal way of looking at the present through the historical lens. He posts every Wednesday and this latest post is a gem if you have a few minutes to read it.
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-great-rehash-part-four-a-hill-to-die-on/
Here's an excerpt:
Fast forward to 2016. The Brexit vote in Britain and the election of Donald Trump in the US put the clerisy of the industrial world on notice that a very large number of people no longer trusted them and would not take their advice any longer. The result, as we all remember, was a pair of world-class tantrums. How dare ordinary people doubt the expert opinions of their betters? Of course that didn’t exactly go over well among the ordinary people in question, and the result was the increasingly hostile armed standoff between the clerisy and its supporters, on the one hand, and those people who had lost faith in the clerisy on the other. Since the clerisy was doing nothing to give people a reason to have renewed faith in their competence—shrieking insults at your critics isn’t an effective way to do this, after all—stresses rose to the breaking point.