After Collapse: The End of America and the Rebirth of Her Ideals

by Max Borders

America is in her twilight.Our systems are headed for collapse.So say goodbye to politics as we know it.In this audacious book, Max Borders shows us that American society is breaking socio-economic models are faulty.Our hierarchies are strained.Our belief in the founding ideals is fading.Our systems of mutual aid are dyingOur collective intelligence is fractured.Our civil discourse is deteriorating.Our government is in debt and disorder.Just one of the above challenges would be bad enough. But seven?These are a consequence of a deep imbalance. Borders argues that when the masculine coercion paradigm and the feminine persuasion paradigm get out of balance, collapse looms.Despite laying out a disquieting case for America's fall, Borders presents a transpartisan vision for a different kind of society. With a futurist's foresight, Borders draws from the world's wisdom traditions to reimagine the American Founding. At the same time, he calls on us all to turn inward, to become better people, and to criticize by creating.This is your guide to the post-collapse era."One of the books I recommend the most, and secretly wish the whole world would read." - Brian Robertson, creator of Holacracy on The Social Singularity.

513 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 4, 2021

Reviews

[Jordan]

There's a lot of good: The author says some things that take courage to say and clearly is coming with a lot of heart. I heard of some great innovative ideas on how future libertarian utopias could run, especially in the space of legal codes, that I'd never encountered before. The author shows an ability to hold a lot of complexity and covers a wide ground.

There's a lot I didn't like:
• A variety of basic assumptions and basic claims that arguments were built on didn't hold up for me
• The majority of the book is about collapse, not "After Collapse" and as such is more a libertarian indictment on the current system and prediction of our demise, rather than a positive vision for the future. I wasn't expecting this.
• I don't really jive with the concepts of "Eros Masculine Thanatos Masculine and Eros Feminine Thanatos Feminine, and they run throughout the book.
• More importantly, there's a through-line of Masculine being the 'bad oppressor' and Feminine being able to save us that I just can't stomach. If there's something bad in the world, the author is going to chalk it up to the masculine. Usually it's "Dominance Hierarchy" versus "Decentralization"
• The whole drama/fear triangle runs rampant through the whole book, making me wonder the author's personal relationship to control and why it's such a 'bad guy' projected out there

Stylistically I also found it hard to read—it feels more like a collection of a ton of blog posts loosely woven together than a coherent narrative for what's happening and what we might do to help create a future we want to live in, either avoiding collapse or working our way through it.

I might add more later...

[Sjfbdj · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written. Great read.