In recent research for TUC programs on climate change, the school strike movement and extinction rebellion ideas around collapse have been coming up. They may be expressed by scientists or novelists and include familiar names such as James Howard Kunstler and John Michael Greer.
One person stands out – Dmitry Orlov and this is a conversation with him that was conducted by James on his Hermitix podcast on August 31, 2019.
Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and writer on subjects related to “potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States,” something he has called “permanent crisis”.
When Orlov’s book: – Everything is Going According to Plan – was published in 2017 he wrote: A little over 21 years ago I determined for myself how this story is going to end, but kept my mouth shut. Then, around 2000 , I sensed a change in the wind and wrote the article “Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century” which launched my writing career. Since then I have published several books and hundreds of essays, but I stand by everything I have written since the very beginning. Everything is going according to plan. I don’t know whose plan it is, and I think that it’s a really stupid plan, but everything is going according to it anyway. I hope that knowing what the plan is will save you and those around you from a great deal of senseless aggravation.
Dmitry Orlov continues to write almost weekly on his “Club Orlov” blog http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/
Thanks to James who allowed me to use the audio from his interview of Dmitry Orlov on his Hermitix blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-33M7H99Pb8
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