The Empire That Ate Itself
On the long collapse of American hegemony
Topic archive
Musings on Futures and Foresight
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.
From Records to Rights
How Data Systems Recode Human Possibility
When Famine Becomes Method
Engineered Starvation and International Law
Beyond the Breaking Point
Reimagining a Future Beyond Capitalism
The Idea That Didn't Need To Win
The agenda that makes argument irrelevant
The Idea That Couldn't Be Forgiven
Why truth provokes outrage, and has always done so
War on the Rocks
The War That Consumes Its Own Intelligence
The Gravity of Precedent
Normalisation of the Unthinkable
Planetary Intelligence Part 2
Ecority's Response to Civilisational Collapse
Planetary Intelligence Part 1
The Prevailing Paradigm and the Need for Metamorphosis
Outgrowing the Economy
Breaking the Cult of More and More Stuff
Transcending Our Limitations
Beyond the Binaries of Separation and Disconnection
Our Common Humanity
Living as If the Future Actually Matters
Monsters and Angels
The Thin Line Between Damnation and Grace
Sword of Damocles
Humanity's Reckoning with Nuclear Annihilation
Not Nostradamus. But...
Dispatches from the End of Empire
Identity Shift
From Mastery of Task to Mastery of Thought
Better Green Than Grief-Stricken
Why Climate Risk Is Becoming the New Capital Requirement
The Race Toward Agricultural Collapse
...and what we might be able to do about it
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