https://brcrusoe72.github.io/directors-notes/tags/cascades/Recent content in Cascades on The Director's NotesHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usWed, 06 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000https://brcrusoe72.github.io/directors-notes/posts/2026-05-06-the-bronze-age-collapse-took-fifty-years/Wed, 06 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000https://brcrusoe72.github.io/directors-notes/posts/2026-05-06-the-bronze-age-collapse-took-fifty-years/Around 1177 BCE the eastern Mediterranean world ended in a fifty-year multi-causal cascade. The contemporaneous textual record does not appear to recognize it. The pattern of how cascades hide from their inhabitants is the genuinely uncomfortable lesson — and we are almost certainly in at least one right now.