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2 days ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
I’ve been in Australia the past month and I’ve spent a good solid bunch of hours explaining and teasing out the thesis I put forward in my new Collapse Book. As all of you who have read it would know, I really do go hard on the idea of redirecting our “efforting” to preserving our humanity, our sense of what is meaningful and worthy about being a human being. Fascism works when we allow our humanity to be eroded. Civilisations go down violently when the humans don’t have sturdy morays to tether to.
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1 week ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
A wonderful and surprising consequence of committing to the brutal truth of our existential predicament is having one’s limiting, arrogant, “othering” beliefs challenged almost daily. I think such a regular reckoning comes with the simple act of lifting off scabs. I’ve been back in Australia for a few weeks and I had been feeling quite self-conscious about how my latest project - a book about, um, the end of the (old) world - would be received. This is a reader-supported publication.
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1 week ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |A C Grayling
, and many others for tuning into my live video with! To join my live videos (every Tuesday) you will need to have the app downloaded. In today’s Live, my dear friend and prolific philosopherand I talk about the subject of his new bookIt’s pretty much a public version of the kind of c…
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2 weeks ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
According to those who track such things, the up and up of “Utah curls”, tattoo removals, “soft life” make-up and ”quiet luxury” hair in late 2024 were “obvious indicators” that Trump would win the election. Commentators pointed to Kylie Jenner dissolving her fillers by a few degrees, the rise of “cottage core” and the “trad wife” movement as signs that the world was set to heave Right. This kind of commentary has seemingly dialled up in 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |Amy Remeikis
, and many others for tuning into my live video with! I do these Live podcast chats each Tuesday…to get the alerts and join in make sure you have the Substack App downloaded:Australia is just days out from the Federal Election and I have had concerns. I am not seeing the leaders talking the big geopolitical issues of our moment and ma…
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3 weeks ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
We can go in circles. And then we can stand back a bit. And when we do, several questions tend to nag. One of them is, What ultimately motivates the Musks and Marc Andreessens, Brian Armstrongs and Peter Thiel's of the world? Their nihilistic behaviour defies reason.
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1 month ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |Amy Remeikis
The European Commission has just told its 450 million residents to assemble a 72-hour survival kit. The kit should include matches, three days worth of food and water, a torch, a Swiss army knife, and card games (cute) etc, in preparation for the “challenges that cannot be ignored”, namely war, natural disaster, pandemics and civil unrest.
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1 month ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |Grace Blakeley
Thank you , , , , , and many others for tuning into my live video with of the What Can We Do? SubstackGrace explores the intersections of capitalism, politics and economics… and pretty much everything that’s happening right now. Life tariffs. And collapsing stock markets. In this chat we cover specifically her recent commentary about what the Left can do to respond to the rise of the oligarchs. Here’s a post that outlines her call to arms.
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1 month ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
I promised to put all the shares from this Community Thread: Tech tips for sticking it up the broligarchs in one, neat spot. The “softer” tips for dialling down tech dependence (at the bottom) should not be dismissed. In fact, I think they are the more urgent switches to be implemented, for reasons that extend to being prepared for the kind of emergencies much of Europe is now warning its citizens to be mindful of (the next post will cover this).
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1 month ago | 
sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson
At the start of the year I paused the Wild with Sarah Wilson podcast. It was costing me more than I was being paid to make it. And I’d been doing it for four, long years. Plus, I was at the mercy of Spotify et al algorithms. So on, so forth. The past few weeks I’ve been experimenting with the Live interview format here on Substack, where I do a live chats with another like-minded Substacker and then put the video up on my feed after for anyone who missed it. And it’s been working.
