The Forest Does Not Fall At Once
The woman who grills chicken over charcoal at the mouth of my soi has raised her prices twice since the second week of July.
Musings
Musings
Through thought provoking articles, essays, and reflections, Richard shares his visionary insights, challenging us to reimagine the world we live in. This archive brings Richard's public writing back onto his own domain while preserving the original Substack and Patreon networks.
Reality. What a Concept!
The Power of Our Consensual Frameworks
A Cartography of Ghosts
Navigating the Regimes of Industrial Economism
What Holds Everything Together
Essential Tenets of a Civilisation Worth Inhabiting
From Parliamentary Theatre to Civic Wisdom
The Westminster Model's Terminal Decline
Albert Fish and the Manufactured Monstrous
The Futures We Refuse To Prevent
Choosing the Horizon
Navigators, Narratives, and the Fate of Worlds
When Leadership Confronts Reality
The Collapse of Consent
When the Grey Zone Becomes the Main Theatre
War, intelligence, and the slow unravelling of the public realm
Climate Change Policies
Deploying Eco-pragmatism to Frame Action
Sophisticated State Failure
How the West learned to Decay Without Falling
What Comes After Downsizing
The Positive Case for Contraction of the Species
What Is Any Of This For?
The question civilisations can't ask themselves
The Bandwidth of Sorrow
On Exhaustion, Empire, and the Faint Light Still Coming Through
Noisy Activists
The Pilbara runs on diesel the rest of Australia pays for. The mining lobby would rather you didn't say so.
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The Hames Report
Long-form essays and reflections on the future of everything. Read and support on SubstackPatreon / Published daily