Things break apart; the center cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is usually loosed upon the world.

Although writing nearly a hundred years ago, William Butler Yeats could very easily be describing the United States today. The central feature of today’s geopolitical landscape is the imminent decrease and fall of America’s global empire, and our response to it will determine much of our upcoming, with implications reaching significantly beyond the limitations of the United Says’ borders.

Decrease and Fall: The End of Empire as well as the on the subject of Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Hundred years America Future of Democracy in 21st Century America challenges the conventional wisdom of empire. John Michael Greer uses a wealth of historic examples combined with groundbreaking primary analysis to show how, in the quest for political and economic power, america has backed itself right into a part, explores the unavoidable consequences of imperial collapse, and argues the only constructive way forward is usually a renewal of democratic organizations.

Rather than asking whether today’s American empire should survive, Greer shifts the conversation to whether it could survive, and argues persuasively which the answer to the last mentioned question is “zero.” A great contribution to the body of speculative post-industrial books, this book can be a must-read for anyone concerned about the condition of the Union, or who thinks that it’s time for you to reinvent the American Fantasy. John Michael Greer is definitely a scholar of ecological background, an internationally renowned Peak Oil theorist, and the writer greater than thirty books like the Long Descent.