Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works.

- John Michael Greer

I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with bottlenosed porpoises, Afric…

- John Michael Greer

Between the poor and any appreciation for modern science stands a wall made of failed schools, defunded libraries, denied opportunities, and the syst…

- John Michael Greer

One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the …

- John Michael Greer

... the future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.

- John Michael Greer

Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and va…

- John Michael Greer

When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our allegedly preordained d…

- John Michael Greer

There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

- John Michael Greer

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that sup…

- John Michael Greer