September 2019 Open Post

   September 25, 2019
   John Michael Greer
   477 Comments

   This week's Ecosophian  offering is the monthly (well, more  or less!) open
   post to field questions and encourage  discussion among my readers. All the
   standard rules  apply -  no profanity,  no sales  pitches, no  trolling, no
   rudeness, no long  screeds proclaiming the infallible truth of  fill in the
   blank - but  since there's no topic, nothing is  off topic...well, with one
   exception.

   The exception? For  the second time in  just over a year,  some people have
   pulled  one comment  out of  context from  one of  my mundane  astrological
   predictions, found some  bit of current media chatter  that contradicts it,
   and are running around shrieking at the top of their lungs that this proves
   I'm  wrong about  everything, so  there. It's  highly amusing,  and also  a
   useful  reminder of  just how  emotionally  brittle some  people are  about
   certain political issues.

   Now of course  the internet has the attention  span of a gnat, and  so do a
   fair number  of its denizens. Expecting  them to recognize that  a forecast
   for six  months needs  to be assessed  after six months,  not six  days, is
   probably reaching.  Still, if someone predicts  that the next year  will be
   unusually rainy, you haven't disproved them, you know, by yelling about how
   you went to a picnic yesterday and it didn't rain a drop.

   With that  in mind,  I'm going to  invite anyone who  wants to  discuss the
   accuracy of  last week's predictions  to join me  in a discussion  here the
   week following March 18, 2020, when we'll be able to look back over the six
   months just past and  see how well I did. Until then,  the accuracy of last
   week's ingress  chart forecast is off  topic, and anyone who  tries to talk
   about it here will have their entire comment text deleted and replaced with
   the label [troll with inadequate reading comprehension skills]. As Stan Lee
   used to put it, `nuf said.

   With that said, have at it!