Collapse

see

• Joseph Tainter's Collapse Of Complex Societies.
• James Howard Kunstler's Long Emergency
• Jane Jacobs' Dark Age Ahead (Dark Age)
• Dmitry Orlov's Reinventing Collapse
• 2009-06-16-RafordCollapseDynamics
• Failed State
• Transition Town
• Resilient Community
• William Gibson's Jackpot

I hope the current/near-future "unpleasantness" will hasten the Economic Transition to a Network Economy. But that process will be messier than childbirth. And that "optimism" depends on not having an Energy-inflation crash.