The systems view and degrowth meet in Neil Howe’s scheme of recursive cycles in history. If we are entering the final years of Crisis, a solstice era of both “maximum darkness” and “renascent community,” degrowth may be the concept needed to resolve our most stubborn socio-ecological challenges.
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YouTube video by The Enablers
Devil Philosophy by The Enablers from their self-titled album
Thinking of this song again today.
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America America by Greg Grandin
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A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl
Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
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I'm having trouble loving my monsters—that is to say, my students, who have re-emerged, as if from some Ironman-like techno-rebuild, newly fortified behind a thick armor of machine language. Is there anyone in there anymore? How would I know?
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Fort Worth Blues, 11/14-15/2024
Months before, when I bought the tickets, I was concerned about the dates and how I would feel. The first was for T Bone Burnett at a local listening room in my Dallas neighborhood called the Kessler Theater, and the second the next night for Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett at Dickie’s Arena, where they hold the annual Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. The two dates fell on a Thursday and Friday, the week after the election. Would I be elated, my trust in the American electorate renewed? Or—well, we all know how it turned out.
Fort Worth Blues, 11/14-15/2024
Months before, when I bought the tickets, I was concerned about the dates and how I would feel. The first was for T Bone Burnett at a local listening room in my Dallas neighborhood called the Kessler Theater, and the second the next night for Leon Bridges and…
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Leon and Charley, an old photo that came up in my feed:
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RIP Alice Munro. One of the greats
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Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
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