The Post-Partisan Emporium

Futures That Work John Michael Greer Among the most curious features of the current predicament of industrial society is that so much of it was set out in great detail so many decades ago. Just at the moment I’m not thinking of the extensive literature on resource depletion that started appearing in the 1950s, which set out in painstaking detail the mess we’re in right now. I’m thinking of those writers who explored the decline and fall of past civilizations, in the vain hope that ours might manage to avoid making all the usual mistakes.  In particular, I’m thinking of Arnold Toynbee. Arnold Toynbee, contemplating the idiocy of failing elites.  Toynbee’s all but forgotten these days, but three quarters of a century ago his was a name to conjure with. His gargantuan 12-volume work  A Study of History  set out to trace the histories of all known civilizations and, from that data set, determine the factors that drove the rise and fall of human societies. One- and two-vo...

October 5, 2022 The Federal Reserve has been attacking inflation. The problem is that after printing trillions of dollars, they’re ill-equipped to succeed at their task. Partly, this is because all that cash has to go somewhere and partly this is because their mandate does not extend into ensuring that global energy production expands. While Owners’ Equivalent Rent and wages have remained elevated, those are often seen as the “good” sort of inflation—or at least the benign sort. Meanwhile, all other forms of inflation tend to be characterized as “bad” and frequently the “bad” inflation is caused by elevated energy prices, which then increase the costs of producing and transporting everything else. Therefore, despite the Fed ignoring the inflation they caused for well over a year, when oil cleared $100 a barrel, the Fed finally felt that they had no choice but to do something. The problem is that the only ways to reduce the price of oil are to produce more of it or consume less of it. I...

Peter Tocci asked me to tweak my original scheme because he wanted to use it in a series of articles...   Those that know the Original "Art Work" will detect the nuances!  And here they are... the articles! Read at the source

save the mancubs won't you please help? odd as it may seem, many students who ran up $100k in debt to get degrees in the sociological semiotics of applied entitlement then got $12k in large scale tattoos are struggling to find zero carbon, anti-oppression work from home in your jam-jams careers that can both generate income sufficient to repay their loans and provide enough validation of “the all encompassing narrative of the me” to make getting out of bed worthwhile. your donation of just $10,000 can really help keep these victims of inexplicable circumstance in avocado toast and ironic fair trade sneakers. won’t you please help? operators are standing by. Source: bad cattitude

The USDA Wants to Register Your Vegetable Garden in a National Database We should not trust them. Matt Agorist Hello, free thinkers. As you likely know, TFTP has long been an advocate of self-sustainability, off-grid living, and growing your own food. For a decade, we’ve shined a light on the state each and every time we caught them attacking this way of life. From fines  for front yard gardens  to  raiding Amish farmers  for not following the notoriously corrupt guidelines of the federal government, we’ve seen some rather egregious attacks on our rights as humans to use our own property and choose where our food comes from. This new move by the USDA, however, is a little different. It could be nothing — but it could also be a sinister and subtle way for the feds to attack food sovereignty. The USDA is now registering and mapping self-sustainable communities through a gardening initiative that is particularly suspect, especially given the organization’s track record....