The Book Depository The Five Stages of Collapse by Dmitry Orlov
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Description: The Five Stages of Collapse : Paperback : New Society Publishers : 9780865717367 : 0865717362 : 28 Oct 2021 : A user's guide to economic, political, social and cultural collapse. The Book Depository The Five Stages of Collapse by Dmitry Orlov - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: CHRIS JONES
Rating: 5
Review: For anyone who is interested in scenarios about how the future of the current industrial/capitalist paradigm could pan out '5 Stages of Collapse' (sub-titled 'A Survivors Toolkit' is for you. Dmitry Orlov writes with a wonderful dry humour which is most engaging in itself. He develops the idea of various of our systems falling over - financial, commercial political, social and cultural, and then provides cases studies of each of these, which can provide some solutions to the issues raised. This is of course set against our various financial calamities, resource drawdown, slide into climate change, over population and the slow demise of the nation state. Of course this introduces ideas and possibilities that are very hard for many of us to process at first glance or even second glance but i would urge anyone and everyone to stop and think about what he has to say as each of his case studies are based on events which are happening now, and seemingly being extrapolated across the globe. he emphasises the psychological damage that can accompany these changes, which is why I particularly find his writing so useful, so that when the wheels come off I am emotionally prepared, and hopefully able to function as a useful parent and neighbour. He offers hope too. Having spent the last few decades demolishing the extended family and locally based life we will perforce find that our most resilient social ties will be within our families and close communities. Our salvation such as it is will rest within that setting, and the symptoms of this are already apparent with for instance the growth in the 3 generation household.
Author: Paul Simister
Rating: 2
Review: This reminds me of some of the CDs I have in my music collection - a couple of excellent songs, some that are OK and a few that I never want to hear again. The author is overflowing with ideas that he wants to share but I'm struggling to find a cohesive flow to the book. For example I read a chapter that spent a lot of time talking about a utopian society based on giving and then the case study that follows looks at how organised crime came to dominate in Russia and the former Soviet Union. If there's an explanation of how you head towards the nice and avoid the nasty, I missed it. I'm getting frustrated and angry with the book as it shoots off into areas that appear to me to be irrelevant. I've had to give up on it and I think it's going to take a lot to get me to go back. I suspect there's an important book here but I think it's struggling to get out. It needs much better editing to either weed out the irrelevant or to explain the relevancy.
