Facts, Values, and Dark Beer | John Michael Greer

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Nov. 19, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- Over the last eight-and-a-half years, since I first began writing essays on The Archdruid Report, I’ve fielded a great many questions about what motivates this blog’s project.

Some of those questions have been abusive, and some of them have been clueless; some of them have been thoughtful enough to deserve an answer, either in the comments or as a blog post in its own right. Last week brought one of that last category. It came from one of my European readers, Ervino Cus, and it read as follows:

“All considered (the amount of weapons -- personal and of MD -- around today; the population numbers; the environmental pollution; the level of lawlessness we are about to face; the difficulty to have a secure form of life in the coming years; etc.) plus the ‘low’ technical level of possible development of the future societies (I mean: no more space flight? no more scientific discovery about the ultimate structure of the Universe? no genetic engineering to modify the human genome?) the question I ask to myself is: why bother?

“Seriously: why one should wish to plan for his/her long term survival in the future that awaits us? Why, when all goes belly up, don't join the first warlord band available and go off with a bang, pillaging and raping till one drops dead?

“If the possibilities for a new stable civilization are very low, and it's very probable that such a civilization, even if created, will NEVER be able to reach even the technical level of today, not to mention to surpass it, why one should want to try to survive some more years in a situation that becomes every day less bright, without ANY possibilities to get better in his/her lifetime, and with, as the best objective, only some low-tech rural/feudal state waaay along the way?

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[hedda_foil]

1. Goddess, I'm in love with the Archdruid.

He must be using special Druid magic to produce so many fine books on top of the best blog on the web (imho). His syfi novels Are terrific as well.

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2. hedda, I love Him, too.

I need to outcheck his novels. --Tace

[AverageJoe90]

4. Can't say much about his novels......

Because I've never read them. I dunno, maybe he *is* a decent writer, at least. But you can't honestly deny that he's a little....off, dont'cha think?

[AverageJoe90]

3. Wow....goddamn, man. This is honestly.....

One of the worst John Greer pieces I've ever read, and that's saying a lot, given my familarity with the past material.

Of course, granted, much of the worst nuttiness this time around, to be fair, actually came from this correspondent of his, and he actually tries to seem like he's balancing things out. But then he starts going back in that same direction later on.....

Seriously, dude, this is NOT a good place for this kind of material. "Creative Speculation" is where this stuff belongs, and I'd suggest you follow that advice.