Finding Lights in a Dark Age with Chris Smaje

Farmer and author Chris Smaje has long understood that the scale of our material extraction and energy consumption cannot be reliably continued for the coming decades, never mind indefinitely. He understands that dominant narratives of progress and human control over the living world were always illusions, and those illusions are beginning to rapidly unravel. He’s also long advocated for far more localized, small-scale, and bioregional farms and futures as a response to this ongoing and accelerating collapse. As liberal-modernism confronts its dark age, Chris recognizes that “people will begin to ask: ‘Who are my people? Who is my community? What do I worship? Where is home?’ Community will come into focus.”

This, of course, is part of the core philosophy behind revillaging: even as we encounter the end of the world as we know it, we can still rediscover and co-create beautiful relationships and ways of being. We are very excited to welcome Chris Smaje into this otherWisdom Circle. He’ll join us as we explore the themes of his books, and consider the questions everyone will increasingly find themselves asking.