We are no longer headed toward a smooth or linear transition. What lies ahead is volatile, uncertain, and spiky—marked by rupture rather than reform. As our current economic engines collapse, we’re witnessing a deepening inability to allocate capital toward the future. Capital is increasingly being mobilised to preserve existing assets—assets under... See more

Considering that the catastrophes we are experiencing may take decades or even centuries to play out, then another century for us to recover after that, it may be advisable for us to get ahead of the game and begin creating cultures and societies of transition, to lessen the impacts of this calamity on our communities and potentially avoid

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discuss several alternative theories of past and future in our section on Fragmentation, Frontier, Fourth Turning, and Future Is Our Past. These theses don’t describe a clean progressive victory on every axis, but instead a set of cycles, hairpin turns, and mirror images, a set of historical trajectories far more complex than the narrative of

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