Shhhh: "There Is No Brighter Future"

John Michael Greer sees the future of the Tea Party tendency (and other populist currents) as the obvious ecological limits to unlimited economic growth begin to sink in:

It seems uncomfortably likely to me that such movements could be set in motion by the emergence of peak oil as a publicly acknowledged crisis. Tendencies in that direction are already welded firmly in place in popular culture across the industrial world. The Sarah Palin supporters who turned "Drill, baby, drill" into...