No. 6, January-May 2023

In the early 21st century, do we who are Modern Techno-Industrial (MTI) peoples and cultures really know who we are and what we are doing, or is there a serious chance that we are kidding ourselves; that we are simply wrong about the superiority of the ways we grasp and respond to reality; that today we are in a kind of trouble that is both far deeper and far different from that which we now think we are in?

In this issue we begin a series on collapse, which we will expand on in our next issue. As Tim Crownshaw so well observes in his article “The Return to Solar Civilizations,” when things reach a certain level of complexity we turn to narratives or stories to understand them. As Crownshaw puts it, this was an evolutionary adaptation.