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“There are two common and complementary mistakes, which have been made over and over again concerning spirits by people in the Western world. The…

— John Michael Greer

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the…

— John Michael Greer

“[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a different path…

— John Michael Greer

Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works.

— John Michael Greer

... the future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.

— John Michael Greer

There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

— John Michael Greer

“It’s unfashionable these days to notice that a great many human beings have had, and continue to have, experiences that they describe as interactions…

— John Michael Greer

I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with bottlenosed porpoises,…

— John Michael Greer

When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our…

— John Michael Greer

Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value…

— John Michael Greer

“What tends to be forgotten, amid all the cheerleading for today’s technology, is that people in ancient times might have lacked our current theoretical…

— John Michael Greer

“Hardin, Garrett, Filters Against Folly (New York: Penguin, 1985).”

— John Michael Greer