Charles Hugh Smith

Although the progression of events over the next eight years cannot be predicted, we have enough in hand to project The Trajectory of History…

The Good News is people are realizing We’re On Our Own and starting to take action accordingly. This article describes how people in one…

Dear friends and family: I’m writing this Christmas missive while my court-appointed lawyer trades cryptocurrencies on his phone. He was recently laid off by…

Context matters, for context establishes cause and effect and what’s elevated to important / consequential. Context is tricky for two reasons: 1) we only…

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…