"Prophets of Doom." History Channel, 2011.
As I prepare to hunt for a job puttering around like most academics, it is interesting to take a look at the big picture of what is going on in society. The world as we know it is crashing, as it always has, only it is bigger now, so it falls harder. I hope I can prepare myself to live in a world without all the things I depend on subconsciously.
I wish universities studied this stuff. I feel like this is really what I am interested in. What I really want to learn is how to live happily like the people in "less developed" economies, which are more sustainable than the cancerous, obese behemoth that is the imploding First World. My research into antiquity is an attempt to get back to something better than modern civilization, without making the same mistakes that were made. I want to return to the Bronze Age (or earlier), without being stupid the same way my ancestors were back then.
My journey into the past is also a journey into the future. It is not a "restoration" (in the Mormon sense) really; it is more of a cautious reformation. There is no Eden to return to. But there is a purgatory before the modern hell, and right now that purgatory is looking like the place to build if you want to last.
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