In this episode of the Quillwood Podcast, Eric Garza invites listeners to look critically at the idea of social collapse as it is often portrayed in today's media, both popular and academic. He explores different meanings of collapse and how they are often applied, what literature on sustainability can teach us about being discerning about collapse, and escaping from the binaries laid out in the myth of progress and the myth of apocalypse, among other things.

Outline

• 00:00 - 02:56 — Introduction
• 02:56 - 04:26 — Selling collapse with fear
• 04:26 - 08:44 — Discerning what collapse actually means
• 08:44 - 14:17 — A diversion into the meaning of sustainability
• 14:17 - 17:48 — Getting specific when we talk about collapse
• 17:48 - 21:23 — Revisiting the binaries of progress and apocalypse
• 21:23 - 23:20 — Episode wrap-up

Links and Resources

• Quillwood Academy
• Apocalypse Cafés
• Quillwood Reading Groups
• How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse, by John Michael Greer
• Defining and predicting sustainability, by Robert Costanza and Bernard Patten
• The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age, by John Michael Greer