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Personal contemplations on the human ecological overshoot predicament as well as the cyclical nature of complex society collapse (and a few things in between).
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The Bulletin: September 24–30, 2026 (opens the original)
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXIII–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part 4: Military Expansion and the Pursuit of Conquest (opens the original)
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This Contemplation continues my exploration of elite responses to diminishing returns on investments in complexity. Part 2 explored the most common one–squeezing the population–and the extraction mechanisms used. Part 3 analysed the response of investing more heavily in ideological justification. Here, I will look into another common response to diminishing returns: military expansion and the attempt to solve resource problems through geopolitical conquest. Similar to my analyses of the previous
The Bulletin: September 17–23, 2026 (opens the original)
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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXII–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part 3: Investing More Heavily in Ideological Justification (opens the original)
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I began this series of Contemplations on elite responses to the architecture of collapse by outlining the five recurring ones that tend to be made in the face of diminishing returns on investments in complexity: squeezing the masses tighter, ideological justification, military expansion, scapegoating, and techno-fixes. In the second part, I explored the first and most common response–squeezing the population–and the extraction mechanisms used. I illustrated the pattern by way of the evidence for
The Bulletin: September 10–16, 2026 (opens the original)
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