The Crunch is Upon Us.

Richard Lowenthal
14 min readJun 20, 2022

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I distinctly remember being in my 20s and writing a short essay/poem called “The Crunch”. My own writing scared me; it was just a brief paragraph, but it was also a potent prophetic vision. The first line was: “The crunch is upon us”.

As you can imagine, with a title like that, “The Crunch” wasn’t exactly a pleasant vision. Though I was going through some major changes at the time, I wasn’t really a pessimist or ‘extremist’. So this writing was quite out of character for me, since I usually didn’t indulge in apocalyptic visions — though I WAS questioning things, a lot, re: our society and the direction of our civilization.

But this vision of mine was… very dark. Though I lost the original writing years ago, the gist of it was that humanity as a whole is still remarkably ignorant and uncivilized, and all our ‘modern’ economic, social, and commercial systems are totally misaligned with the natural world — and all these barbaric and destructive misalignments will inevitably come to awful fruition and come crashing down on us and our world.

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Richard Lowenthal

Former counselor and current diligent observer of our sociopolitical scene. I celebrate the spirit AND reason, and try to ‘connect the dots’ in my writing.