BRACKEN: Alas, Brave New Babylon: The Audioessay

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My friend, author and Navy Seal Matt Bracken, wrote a sobering essay recently Alas, Brave New Babylon.  The essay posits the effects on middle America of a near-future civilizational collapse, triggered by an economic collapse, which in turn, is triggered by a sovereign debt crisis, caused by intemperate US spending and Federal Reserve bond purchase programs (QE-infinity).

The essay is part story and part narrative, but is wholly harrowing and quite compelling.

Matt got 3rd-generation Alaskan and talk show host Michael Dukes, who has a great voice, to read the essay.



Download on Backwoods Engineer in case the audio player above doesn't work:

Alas,BraveNewBabylon-Matt Bracken(MichaelDukes).mp3  58MB (1:02:00)

I shared the file so that others may have a chance to listen to it and perhaps we might avoid what Bracken predicts here.  I am not posting the file to infringe anyone's copyrights.

Enjoy.

--Backwoods

P.S., remember that this essay is part of The Bracken Anthology, which is free for the Kindle (and can be read on your browser) this week.

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