This is going to be an unusually short post. I’m starting a new channel — this time on Substack. Don’t be surprised if you get unusual e-mails from there, it’s me floundering with the new system. Sorry for the inconvenience, I hope I can sort these technicalities out soon. Oh, be sure to subscribe and follow me there too! Thank you. Until next time, B

Denial is like a glacier. At first sight, and to everyone standing on it, it looks rock solid. Then cracks start to develop, and before you know it, a huge chunk breaks off and drifts away — never to be seen again. This is what’s happening to peak oil right…

It increasingly looks like that our future is going to be low-tech. I’m not talking about the life of our descendants far-far away into the eons ahead, but something most of us will experience in one form or another during the following decades. Contrary to what our elites, our culture…

It looks like we have to wait a little more to see the end of the oil age. Our desire to burn more and more stuff knows no limits — at least not when talking about the foreseeable future. Statements like “oil will be needed for at least another 10…

After I started working for my current employer, I met a colleague with whom I simply could not work with. We disagreed on almost everything — not on a factual level, but rather on how we approach working with problems and identify solutions. …

During the past year we have seen a total collapse of the EU’s once renowned democratic institutions, burying the continent’s last vestiges of independence together with its journalistic ethics and traditions of free thinking beneath the rubble. It has become harder than ever to peel back the many layers of…

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” ― Antonio Gramsci We live through transitional times. Transition from an era of growth to economic contraction. From a stable climate to something utterly different and chaotic. From a global hegemony…

Our high-tech civilization is like an ageing man in full denial of his mortality. It is eating his children just to live a day longer, rather than admitting that its craving for immortality is founded on nothing more than magical thinking. In its firm belief that technology can save it…

Industrial civilization is slowly failing and it kind a sucks being stuck with it. Over the past couple of weeks and months I’ve been increasingly posting about the failure of western civilization, but let’s not forget that the West is but a part of global civilization suffering from the same…