Update from the Archdruid Greer

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 16 Nov 2017, 16:24

"One drop fallacy"

Outstanding

Lord Beria3 · Post by **Lord Beria3** » 18 Nov 2017, 14:26

Superb!

Lord Beria3 · Post by **Lord Beria3** » 13 Dec 2017, 19:43

https://www.ecosophia.net/december-2017 ... in-bubble/

Greer's latest.

A strong warning about the bitcoin craze as well.

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 13 Dec 2017, 22:45

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from ... P&view=12h

raspberry-blower · Post by **raspberry-blower** » 21 Dec 2017, 19:33

The latest from the Archdruid sounds a lot like David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years

John Michael Greer wrote: So economics isnâ€™t a science. It also wasnâ€™t founded by Adam Smith. What Adam Smith founded, rather, was political economy. You wonâ€™t hear much about that field of study these days, and thatâ€™s not an accident. Political economy, as the name indicates, explores the relations between wealth and power in a society. For reasons that I suspect my readers will have no trouble understanding, this is something that a great many wealthy and powerful people in todayâ€™s industrial nations donâ€™t want to discussâ€”and that, my children, is why we donâ€™t have courses on political economy in universities today. We have courses on political science, which claim to study power without taking wealth into account, and courses on economics, which claim to study wealth without taking power into account, and both of these highly praised, well-funded fields of study by and large duly churn out vast amounts of poppycock instead of offering useful insights into the societies in which we live.

JM Greer: An Introduction to Political Economy

Nails it. Again.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 21 Dec 2017, 20:44

Yes. Once again outstanding. This man really is a tremendously clear thinker and communicator.

Mr. Fox · Post by **Mr. Fox** » 22 Dec 2017, 22:33

Apologies if it's already been mentioned, but I was pleased to find that there is an archive of all the old Archdruid Report posts here:

https://thearchdruidreport-archive.2006 ... index.html

Plus the above in a downloadable archive (620mb?) here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... kdIUmcxUTg

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 22 Dec 2017, 23:47

I spent several days copying and pasting directly off the original arch-druid report website - essay by essay - the entire collected set of essays. I then pasted them into a website that converts whatever you paste into it into an e-book format.

It took me a couple of weeks, on and off. But, I now have my own collection of his essays in e-book format

To be honest, if I had the spare cash, I would have happily bought the full set and I feel pretty guilty having not done so. But, I am not high on the cash front these days and so did what I had to.

I just hope the man is making a good return on the collected essays. He deserves it.

They can be had here:

http://www.foundershousepublishing.com/ ... undle.html

Lord Beria3 · Post by **Lord Beria3** » 27 Dec 2017, 20:16

https://www.ecosophia.net/systems-suck-less/

Greer's latest.

Superb writing.

As a conservative, I would love to see the rise of democratic syndicalism as a political economy.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 27 Dec 2017, 21:06

My God, that's it.

Lord Beria3 · Post by **Lord Beria3** » 28 Dec 2017, 19:04

F***ing incredible.

johnhemming2 · Post by **johnhemming2** » 28 Dec 2017, 20:01

Producer mutuals are a good system (John Lewis is a good example). If, however, you are to say that they are the only allowed system then there are consequences of that for everyone else (particularly retired people).

Lord Beria3 · Post by **Lord Beria3** » 28 Dec 2017, 20:39

On a Greerist note, I have written a new post reviewing a superb book on resource scarcity which you can read here;

https://forecastingintelligence.org/201 ... -violence/

leroy · Post by **leroy** » 03 Jan 2018, 17:49

Has anyone read any of Greer in terms of his druidic stuff, like 'The Well of Galabies' under the Blogs and Essays heading of his Ecosophia site? Mind expanding materials.

johnhemming2 · Post by **johnhemming2** » 03 Jan 2018, 18:51

People should also recognise that if there are fewer resources then that is likely to impact everyone, not just the rich.