Charles Hugh Smith

I’ve endeavored to explain how self-referential models veer into hallucinations that are accepted as accurate reflections of the real world. Models are by definition…

A recent article lays out the collapse of the dominant geopolitical model of “rising powers generate conflict”: The Stagnant Order And the End of…

Oh crikey, is this another boring post trying to make philosophy relevant? No, it’s a post about survival of the fittest, as what we…

Hobson’s Choice is the illusion of choice, when the only real choice is “that or none”–”something or nothing.” We now face a Hobson’s Choice…

The immense literature on the decline and collapse of civilizations tends to overlook a simple but profound dynamic: the tunnel-vision created by the fusion…

There are many reasons why we fail, but perhaps the most critical one is continuing to do more of what has failed. This has…

Marketing has seized “your journey” by the throat. The marketing of everything from storage facilities to downtowns now references “your journey,” with the primary…

The primary characteristic of this era is the purposeful confusion of profit and greed, as if they are the same thing. Greed is good…

Unbeknownst to those of us with little inside knowledge of the complex financial plumbing of the US healthcare system, healthcare is in a death…