When there is pressure for leaders to respond to problems or crises, they often simply intensify their efforts in their particular defined sphere of ….

One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles o….

The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful….

Leaders may recognize that they are not addressing the real problems, but they rationalize their actions with the argument that they must first polit….

No society can sustain unlimited growth - none ever has. History demonstrates that expectations of infinite growth lead to collapse. Unfortunately, m….

With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge of crisis….

On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms o….

These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War and the end - or at ….

The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of civilizations are very o….

"Hypercoherence" is one of the most dangerous threats to the long-term survival of our civilization. Hypercoherence is the close efficient linkage of….