Exit Music (notes)

Over here on my more “formal blog”, I wrote a thing about, I dunno, the subservience of all modern ideologies to industrialism, and liberalism's blindness to the baked-in nature of the suffering and oppression that enabled our story of progress, and the need for us to need each other as a way out of the torment nexus. And stuff.

I originally intended that blog to be the basis of a book I've been thinking of writing. There's an outline of the book there. It's about our horror of collapse and our devotion to the religion of progress, and it's about how our false narratives of both collapse and progress blind us to the fact that we need (and will get, like it or not) a far more radical “transition” than that which the technocrats are arguing over.

But more recently I've started to question (1) what my purpose was in writing about that, and (2) the originality or usefulness of my prescription.

So this most recent thing I wrote was coming out the other side of that, to say simply that we need a socioeconomic system based not on production but mutual care, and that, while this may seem radical to rich Westerners in 2026, in fact many other communities and societies have had (and had to have) such systems, for the same reasons we are going to need them – because they could not trust the disembodied institutions that were supposed to support the individualist identity of the liberal subject, to support and serve them.

I hope you enjoy it!