Appreciate your sharp insight and the brutal honesty in your assessment, Tom.

The collapse of complex systems is inevitable when pushed beyond their thresholds, and we’ve spent decades ignoring the warning signs—ecological, political, and economic alike. What makes this moment uniquely terrifying is that all these crises are accelerating in tandem, feeding off each other in a spiral that feels impossible to stop.

Doom is seductive because it absolves us of action, but if history has proven anything, it’s that even in collapse, there are those who resist, adapt, and redefine what comes next. The question is: who will shape that future—those clinging to power through destruction or those willing to build through the wreckage?

Southern winds from Patagonia,

Ricky