progress – Another End of the World is Possible

Confessions of a Recovering Progressive by Michael Dowd

“Those of us who hold liberal values or progressive values … it’s going to take intention and heartfelt energy to continue to shepherd them, because the environment’s not going to be selecting for that.”

Accelerationism: So close, and yet so far

There’s so much I agree with Accelerationism about, including the diagnosis of our civilizational predicament, the critique of capitalism, and impotence of much of progressive and Leftist politics. But then it takes the weird turn of suggesting that we need to double down on the same things that created this crisis: unrestrained growth, faith in technological progress, and a dream of human transcendence.

A Smaller Vision (Paul Kingsnorth)

“What if our challenge now is to build a series of smaller visions, focused less on the future and more on the present; less on the sky and more on the ground?”