Today's Contemplation
Steve BullPersonal 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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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXIII–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part 4: Military Expansion and the Pursuit of Conquest
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 respons...
The Bulletin: September 17–23, 2026
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Libya Threatens Force Majeure as Oil Guards Shut Fields | OilPrice.com
Diesel Crack Spread Explodes To Record As Russia Weighs Longer Export Ban, US Eyes Its Own | Z...
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXII–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part 3: Investing More Heavily in Ideological Justification
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...
The Bulletin: September 10–16, 2026
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Massive Escalation: Iran Sends Large Ballistic Missile Salvo On Jordan Bases, After US Strikes Iranian Oil Tankers | ZeroHedge
U.S. Finds A War It’s Willing to Decla...
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXI–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part 2: Squeezing the Masses Even Tighter
In Part 1 of this series of Contemplations on the typical responses of a society’s ruling elite to societal collapse, I discussed the problem of diminishing returns on investments in complexity–perhaps the central tenet of archaeologist Jos...
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