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Dmitry Orlov, "Social Collapse Best Practices"
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Dmitry Orlov, "Social Collapse Best Practices"

by Stewart Brand
Feb 16, 02009

Dmitry Orlov

Managing social collapse

With vintage Russian black humor, Orlov described the social collapse he witnessed in Russia in the 1990s and spelled out its practical lessons for the American social collapse he sees as inevitable. The American economy in the 1990s described itself as “Goldilocks”—just the right size—when in fact is was “Tinkerbelle,” and one day the clapping stops. As in Russia, the US made itself vulnerable to the decline of crude oil, a trade deficit, military over-reach, and financial over-reach…

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