Links of the Month: October 2026

“Slowly and then all at once”. That’s John Green’s paraphrasing of Ernest Hemingway’s quote in The Sun Also Rises about how change happens (though John wrote it specifically about how we fall in love). Ernest was referring to how you go bankrupt. But it applies to many if not most types of change, large-scale and small, the way they creep up on us until we hardly notice that what we once took for granted is ‘suddenly’ gone. You know, like ‘responsible’ government, like a stable economic system, or like a healthy climate and healthy ecosystems. What we now think of as a ‘natural’ place would be seen as an utterly unnatural place by even a casual observer just a few generations ago. When you’ve never experienced or been exposed to anything else, how can you not see what exists today as being ‘normal’, even inevitable? If my read of the doomscroll is correct, tracking all the systems that make up our current globalized civilization, we are now, almost all of us, in what the collapse…