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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 161 In many respects, things were not going well in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s in the wake of the First World War. The population was humiliated and impoverished, distrusted throughout Europe, and riddled with various problems of social and cultural degeneracy, not least rampant corruption and the relentless manipulations of Marxism. To address these problems, a grand experiment was performed under the direction of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Experiment. This Nazi Experiment was not just catastrophic but horrific, rightly an icon of the possible depths of human evil. Today, some would …

By Claudia Gross and Frank Spencer from Claudia’s emailed Life at Work // Weekly September 21, 2023 and viewable here. The move from VUCA to BANI expresses an evolution: The world is not only volatile, it’s brittle. People aren’t uncertain, they’re anxious. Life is not complex, it’s non-linear. Ambiguous is gone – the experiences are incomprehensible. Stephan Grabmeier has visualized the comparison between VUCA and BANI in a brilliant way. He also wrote about it more extensively – choose your medium: infographic or article.   These three visuals show you the developments in a few words: from VUCA to VUCA, from VUCA to BANI and from BANI to BANI. When …

Just a couple of months ago, anyone who had seriously wondered whether the German energy grid might collapse would have been derided as a doom-monger. Only survivalist preppers and other… View Post The post Why Germany is Bracing for a Cold Winter appeared first on Areo.

Dragon, Town Hall, Munich, Germany

Solar panels on the Werkspoorfabriek, a large industrial warehouse, in Utrecht Germany can shift its entire electricity system onto solar, wind and batteries by 2030 for less than 1% of its GDP. And the country’s entire energy system can go 100% clean energy by 2035 for less than what it spends on fossil fuels. In 10-15 years, Germany can change everything, permanently ending the era of dependence on expensive, volatile fossil fuel extraction, and leading the way for Europe to do the same. At RethinkX, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine prompting European governments in particular to radically rethink their …