The Era of Dissolution | John Michael Greer
June 10, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- The last of the five phases of the collapse process weve been discussing here in recent posts is the era of dissolution.
(For those that havent been keeping track, the first four are the eras of pretense, impact, response, and breakdown). I suppose you could call the era of dissolution the Rodney Dangerfield of collapse, though its not so much that it gets no respect; it generally doesnt even get discussed.
To some extent, of course, thats because a great many of the people who talk about collapse dont actually believe that its going to happen. That lack of belief stands out most clearly in the rhetorical roles assigned to collapse in so much of modern thinking. People who actually believe that a disaster is imminent generally put a lot of time and effort into getting out of its way in one way or another; its those who treat it as a scarecrow to elicit predictable emotional reactions from other people, or from themselves, who never quite manage to walk their talk.
Interestingly, the factor that determines the target of scarecrow-tactics of this sort seems to be political in nature. Groups that think they have a chance of manipulating the public into following their notion of good behavior tend to use the scarecrow of collapse to affect other people; for them, collapse is the horrible fate thats sure to gobble us up if we dont do whatever it is they want us to do. Those whove given up any hope of getting a response from the public, by contrast, turn the scarecrow around and use it on themselves; for them, collapse is a combination of Dantes Inferno and the Big Rock Candy Mountain, the fantasy setting where the wicked get the walloping they deserve while they themselves get whatever goodies theyve been unsuccessful at getting in the here and now.
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