Sobering. The least bad option. And surely, keeping the monsters at bay and buying time for our better angels to emerge is the first task during an inter regnum
Is it really the least bad option? Seems more like a compromise where all of the parties concerned “win” a little bit with no obvious losers. A very Canadian approach in my view.
A post on July 4th by Markham Hislop called A Pipeline to Nowhere about the agreement is worth having a look at, particularly with respect to your essay.
Hislop is an Albertan who writes about energy from a contrarian point of view.
Thank you for this — and for pointing me to the July 4th piece. I'll read A Pipeline to Nowhere with care.
I'll be honest about how I work: I follow the record and verify before I build, so I take every writer — Hislop included — as a lead to check against the primary sources, not a verdict to adopt. But that's exactly why I value the pointer. A contrarian Albertan voice on energy is precisely the kind of frame-widener I need right now, because the deeper I picked apart the particulars, the more I realized that Alberta — and oil as a global industry — is a complexity that demands the whole frame, not a slice of it. That recognition is why I'm holding back until I understand the province at real depth, and Hislop was part of what turned me toward that patience.
This piece states clearly the difficult and complex choices of a ‘crisis’ period as described in The Fourth Turning Is Here. Thank you. May we all stay the course and keep the bigger and wider view to navigate through these times.
Sobering. The least bad option. And surely, keeping the monsters at bay and buying time for our better angels to emerge is the first task during an inter regnum
The week has been a revelation.
Is it really the least bad option? Seems more like a compromise where all of the parties concerned “win” a little bit with no obvious losers. A very Canadian approach in my view.
I really don’t know. But do hope so.
A post on July 4th by Markham Hislop called A Pipeline to Nowhere about the agreement is worth having a look at, particularly with respect to your essay.
Hislop is an Albertan who writes about energy from a contrarian point of view.
Thank you for this — and for pointing me to the July 4th piece. I'll read A Pipeline to Nowhere with care.
I'll be honest about how I work: I follow the record and verify before I build, so I take every writer — Hislop included — as a lead to check against the primary sources, not a verdict to adopt. But that's exactly why I value the pointer. A contrarian Albertan voice on energy is precisely the kind of frame-widener I need right now, because the deeper I picked apart the particulars, the more I realized that Alberta — and oil as a global industry — is a complexity that demands the whole frame, not a slice of it. That recognition is why I'm holding back until I understand the province at real depth, and Hislop was part of what turned me toward that patience.
So thank you for walking a stretch of this with me. The good ones make us slow down, and that's the gift. https://www.sophiainitiative.ai/p/the-alberta-quagmire?r=1pgr4n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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This piece states clearly the difficult and complex choices of a ‘crisis’ period as described in The Fourth Turning Is Here. Thank you. May we all stay the course and keep the bigger and wider view to navigate through these times.