JMG interviewed on the Den of Lore podcast

[ecosophia]

Me chatting with fellow Freemason Chris George Zuger on my new book The Coelbren Alphabet, the new Aeon Books reprint of my translation of Gerard Thibault's Academy of the Sword, and just about anything else that comes to mind. Check it out:

http://www.denoflore.com/ep-040-letter-and-the-sword-w-john-michael-greer/

Comments

Den of Lore

[migrantharvester]

That was very entertaining! Thanks for the announcement - I usually don't find these until long after they are posted. You mentioned (as you have in the past as well) that our country is headed towards a civil war - do you think that this is something that could happen as soon as (or as a result of) Trumps winning a second term as you are predicting? Or is that still a wild card in your mind? I guess the big wild card was how or what ends up setting the tinderbox alight but I seem to remember you as putting it between 2025 and 2050... in any case I'm doing my level best to ignore it all and spend my time digging swales and planting trees. Seems like the sanest thing to do...

Re: Den of Lore

[ecosophia]

Digging swales and planting trees is probably the most sensible thing you can do. As for the timing of civil war here in the US, that's still up in the air -- though I will say that a Trump defeat in the 2020 election (should the Democrats manage to pull their heads out of their collective rectum long enough to learn even one of the lessons of their defeat last year) is as likely to bring it on as a Trump reelection.

A great many of the people who voted for Trump did so out of raw desperation, since Clinton offered them nothing but four more years of the same policies that have slammed their faces into the gravel for decades now. That desperation hasn't gone away. The desperate aren't interested in the ongoing shrieks of canned outrage the media and the privileged are directing at Trump -- they assume, not without reason, that the US mainstream media is in the business of retailing propaganda, period, end of sentence -- but if that drags him down, and the result is yet another business-as-usual president in 2021, it's entirely possible that the result will be an explosion of domestic insurgency. Lao Tsu said it best: "When people have nothing left to live for, it is no use threatening them with death."