The Best Stuff I Read This Week

“When you have no future, you vote for the past.”

— Georgi Gospodinov / Time Shelter

“The idea of managing energy use and controlling greenhouse gas emissions was anathema to the neoliberal economists whose thinking dominated at this crucial juncture. Thus, no planning was done, no precautions were taken, and the only management that finally ensued was disaster management.”

— Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway / The Collapse Of Western Civilization: A View From The Future

“Darkness comes early
This time of year
Making it hard
To recognize familiar faces
In those of strangers.”

— Charles Simic / “Hide and Seek”

“… the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore.”

— Paul Lynch / Prophet Song

“I expect someday a tiny
piece of paper that, unrolled, will read, ‘The End.’”

— Pat Wilson / “My Fortune”

“… but what was anomalous in 2023 soon became the new normal … A shadow of ignorance and denial had fallen over people who considered themselves children of the Enlightenment.”

— Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway / The Collapse Of Western Civilization: A View From The Future

“We are the world’s apocalypse. In that sense we are also our own apocalypse.”

— Georgi Gospodinov / Time Shelter

What I’m Listening To:

“Hell is just a signpost
When you take a certain path”

— Sleater-Kinney / “Hell”