Dmitry Orlov
Thriving in the Age of Collapse (2005) is Dmitry Orlov‘s three-part series on economic collapse in North America. Even as we, vainly, evanescent scent these rotting heaps of money burning in the midnight pale, the collapse is dematerializing, relocalizing, and pre-configuring scraps of a new, more neighborly economy.
This series implies, principally, a flexibility that belies the modern slavishness of coldly cubicled, body-upholstered, love-holstered urban hive-workers; that’s upheld by the glinting tints of past collapse; that, to find you secure, may find you fleeing the squanderous wastes of death, disease, and mad-scrambling militancy of the unfed, unclothed, unwatered, sewage-wading stadiums of our collapse; and that, to capitalize your life through and throughout the idle age of liesurely poverty to follow, may follow you through a bleaker, more purposeful path than that of the pathless, stricken city rabble.
Raiazome sourced this three-part series from Matt Savinar’s Life after the Oil Crash (LatOC) — with gratitude, firm applause, and a digital clap on the back. As extension of that gratitude, we reprint Matt’s preambling commentary to that series and propose that, if you like that commentary and service of his site, you service his site by clicking through a few of its Amazon.com-verted book links.