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On failed states. How far the collapse of civilization has proceeded.

Publicerad 2022-11-17 14:20:00 i Collapse of civilization, Doomsday, Financial crises, Terence McKenna, The hippie movement, Wars,

"As of January 2020, out of the 195 countries that make up our world, 65 are now fighting wars — that’s one out of three countries."
 
(From the article "Scholar Unpacks His 1995 Wager of Global Disaster in “The Collapse of 2020”, by David ToddOctober 8th, 2020, on BookTrib)
 
 
"50 %, or almost 114 of all countries in the world, are failed countries, broken countries."
 
(source: Climate and Economy, November 2022)
 
My comment: See for confirmation the Wikipedia-article "List of countries by Fragile States Index")
 
 
"More than 50 of the poorest developing countries are in danger of defaulting on their debt and becoming effectively bankrupt unless the rich world offers urgent assistance, the head of the UN Development Programme has warned."
 
(From the article "More than 50 poor countries in danger of bankruptcy’ says UN official", by Fiona Harvey, 10 Nov 2022 in The Guardian)
 
My comment: It is as the cyber punk author William Gibson said in "The Economist" in December 4, 2003: “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
 
Or as the hippie philosopher Terence McKenna said: 
 
“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.”
 
(Terence McKenna, from this page, quote nr. 62)
 
“We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.”
 
(McKenna from the same page, quote nr. 37)


 
 
 
 
 

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Lars Larsen

Born 1984 in Finland. Norwegian, lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Poet, ecotheologian and ecophilosopher (though not an academic such in both cases, although he studied theology for almost three years at Åbo Academy University), is also called "The monk" ("munken", he is monk in a self-founded monastery order, "Den Heliga Naturens Orden", "The Order of the Holy Nature"), he calls himself "Forest Man Snailson" (Skogsmannen Snigelson) because of certain strong ties to Nature and the animals, founded among other things through many years of homelessness living in tent, cot, cave and several huts in the Flaten Nature Reserve, the Nacka Reserve and "Kaknästornsskogen" outside of Stockholm. He debuted as a poet in 2007 with "Över floden mig" ("Across the river of me"), published by himself, he has also published an ecotheological work, "Djurisk teologi. Paradisets återkomst" (Animalistic theology. The return of paradise") on Titel förlag 2010. He has published the poem collection "Naturens återkomst" (The return of Nature) on Fri Press förlag 2018 together with Titti Spaltro, his ex-girlfriend. Lars's professions are two, cleaner and painter (buildings). Before he was homeless, but right now he lives in Attendo Herrgårdsvägen, a psychiatric group home for mental patients in Danderyd, Stockholm. His adress is: Herrgårdsvägen 25, 18239 Danderyd, Sverige. One can reach him in the comments section on this blog. His texts on this blog are without copyright, belonging to "Public Domain". He is the author of the texts, if no one is mentioned.

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