“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”
— Albert Camus

The world did not end, but it changed when the United States elected a narcissistic billionaire and racist demagogue as its president.

As Albert Camus once noted, “A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” But there is no shortage of such men in politics and commerce at the moment.

Donald Trump’s electoral victory says something significant about the declining state of the global economy as well as the steady demise of the U.S. empire and its white working class.

Some of these truths are self-evident.

The Baby Boom generation, the most destructive and selfish generation in the history of the planet, has made its last political statement.

Billionaires are an affliction upon the human race.

Half of U.S. voters did not vote because they did not want to participate in political suicide or be part of a grotesque Roman circus.

Technology has placed us in a sea of unending turbulence, yet every politician thinks it is our only lifesaver.

When a people yearn to be great again, they have lost their greatness.

America has entered a revolutionary period. There will be blood.

Reality TV can always humiliate the word.

Journalism doesn’t matter anymore, because the truth counts for little in complex democracies that have peaked.

People don’t trust the media because it is smug and untrustworthy.

Media polls and pundits missed the mark as well as the revolutionary rage.

Digitally obsessed reporters don’t know how to listen to voices different than their liberal urbanity. Nor can they imagine such voices. Instead, they tend to denigrate “the other” as much as Trump.

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