What to Do?
(This is part 8 in the No Time for Utopia series.) I never liked Tolkienβs books β I always found them badly written, reactionary garbage β but when I was…
(This is part 8 in the No Time for Utopia series.) I never liked Tolkienβs books β I always found them badly written, reactionary garbage β but when I was…
(This is part 7 in the No Time for Utopia series.) The main guiding principle of this series is a rejection of βideal theoryβ, that is, of idealizations and unwarranted…
(This is part 6 in the No Time for Utopia series.) In The Ethics of Climate Insurgency I argued that an insurgency aimed at overthrowing the enemies of our children…
(This is part 5 in the No Time for Utopia series.) Letβs say that you want to avoid the Mad-Maxian hell of societal collapse that climate change is making increasing…
(This is part 4 in the No Time for Utopia series.) In the previous two episodes in this series I argued that there are two possible futures for mankind and…
(This is part 3 in the No Time for Utopia series.) In On the Fragility of Civilization, I argued that due to the slowly compounding effects of an increasing number…
(This is part 2 in the No Time for Utopia series.) Doom has always been a major attraction for some, perhaps even many people. There are whole subgenres of extreme…
Most political thought is βideal theoryβ: its arguments are based on an idealized world in which important aspects of reality are abstracted away. Abstraction isnβt necessarily a bad thing β…