There is a school of thought which states that the age of easily accessible and widely available energy will soon be peaking. Perhaps it has already peaked. Perhaps the end is 25 years away. Perhaps 50 or 100. Perhaps Elon Musk will save the world, or perhaps he will fail. The timelines differ, but what unites this school of thought is that this will spark the disintegration of Modern Industrial Civilization – we’ll call this MIC. MIC is defined by widespread if not total participation by society in an industrial – now digitized – lifestyle. It is usually accompanied by […]

The old nationalism was a territorial nationalism. The ingroup didn’t just have ethnic and cultural ties; they were connected to a region. The Jacobins, who birthed modern French nationalism, tied it into the expansion of the State (and the Revolution) under the Republic and Napoleon. Similarly, the German volk is inconceivable without a German heimat. Modern Western identitarianism – responding to mass immigration – promotes territorial integrity and advocates tightening the borders. This focus on reclaiming control over incoming populations is a rational response, given failed policies based on ideological commitments to open borders and ideas of a “global community”. […]