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Tag Archives: declinism
Because Everyone Dies of Something
Today’s Daily from Statcan contained this gem, under new releases:
Your Sunday Declinism
In which David Suzuki wonders whether the world today is better than it was in 1936.
Annals of self-loathing
Apparently the latest thing in low-impact living is getting rid of your fridge. The NYTimes naturally has the details, though the featured performers are, improbably, a couple of public servants in Ottawa City, Canada:
World o Declinism (II)
In last week’s New Yorker, Ben McGrath writes about his travels amongst the dystopians, aka declinists. You know the types — the various apocalyptos, misanthropes, primitivists, and eco-pornographers who fantasize of the day when our obsession with cars, suburbs, and Xboxes and hamburgers will finally whipsaw us back to the stone age.
World o Declinism
This story was briefed on page A14 of the WSJ yesterday. I didn’t see it anywhere else.
First we take Bismarck
Today’s WSJ front-page-quirky-story is about Russian academic Igor Panarin, who has made a bit of a name for himself predicting the imminent crackup of the USA:
Club of Rome, revisited
Metal prices fall further than during Great Depression
World o Declinism
The Post today reprints Rebecca Onion’s great piece on James Howard Kunstler & co., originally published in Slate: