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Social Change Will Upend the Status Quo
Social Change Will Upend the Status Quo The nation is fragmenting because the Status Quo is failing the majority of the citizenry. The core narrative of the Status Quo is that nothing fundamental needs to be changed: all the problems can be solved with more “free money” (borrowed from the future at low rates of […]
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII?
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII? The great scholar of Turkish history, Taner Akçam, has described today’s geopolitics — the alliances and hostilities toward possibly another World War — as being not ideologically based like WWII, but instead greed-based (empire-grabbing) like WWI: These are wars of power, influence, and control over the […]
It’s Time to Rethink Education – Part 1 (Indoctrination)
It’s Time to Rethink Education – Part 1 (Indoctrination) Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. – Mark Twain As a father of two young children, my thoughts have increasingly started to center around their young lives and the future world they’ll inhabit. Such considerations quickly lead to stressful questions such as, what are the […]
Data, Power, And War
Data, Power, And War We’ve built a power structure that leaves the public good begging at the door. This must change. image Over the past few years I’ve been looking for a grand unifying theory that explains my growing discomfort with technology, an industry for which I’ve been a mostly unabashed cheerleader these past three decades. I […]
The Psyops of the “Silence Breakers” Meme
THE PSYOPS OF “THE SILENCE BREAKERS” MEME Time magazine just named their widely acclaimed and followed “Person of the Year”, an award sometimes not given to a single person, but rather to several people, a meme or movement, an entity, basically any ‘thing’ that has greatly influenced the public discourse or narrative. That’s their story […]
What Life Is Like for a Million People in Puerto Rico Who STILL Don’t Have Power
What Life Is Like for a Million People in Puerto Rico Who STILL Don’t Have Power If you ever wondered what it would look like if the grid collapsed here on the mainland, the island of Puerto Rico is a tragic, real-life case study. These stories show us what life is like for more than […]
The Neoliberal Survival Game
The Neoliberal Survival Game Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair One of the ways the media has shaped the public’s attitude concerning the distribution of wealth and power in our society, has been by the dissemination of a familiar but menacing ideology, an ideology which teaches that human success and failure is determined by evolutionary fitness — ‘the […]
Expect Desperate and Insane Behavior From Government in 2018 – Part 1
Expect Desperate and Insane Behavior From Government in 2018 – Part 1 I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which […]
Corruption is Pervasive & Standard Operating Procedure
Corruption is Pervasive & Standard Operating Procedure COMMENT: I read your post on Trump, Jr. and it does appear obvious that there is no investigation into the whole Maginsky Act and why are Trump Jr.’s lawyers not exposing this more? It seems that corruption only really exists when it always involves government. KA ANSWER: Corruption […]
The Problem Isn’t Populism: the Problem Is the Status Quo Has Failed
The Problem Isn’t Populism: the Problem Is the Status Quo Has Failed The top 5% who have benefited so immensely from the consolidation of wealth and power cannot confess the status quo has failed the bottom 95%. The corporate/billionaires’ media would have us believe that the crisis we face is populism, a code word for […]
Our National Madness
Our National Madness Fakery and trickery are not solutions; they are a form of self-delusional madness that destroys the nation’s ability to face reality squarely and choose real solutions, no matter how painful the choice and path might be. The nation has lost its common sense, its soul and its sanity.Can we summarize the source […]
Why the Worst Humans Are Able to Rise to Power
Why the Worst Humans Are Able to Rise to Power In chapter ten of The Road to Serfdom, “Why the Worst Get on Top,” Hayek continues to warn about the dangers of planned economies, but with a slightly different approach from earlier chapters. Stepping into new territory, here we see Hayek not only identifying economic […]
The United States of Weinstein: Complicity, Greed and Corruption Is the Status Quo
The United States of Weinstein: Complicity, Greed and Corruption Is the Status Quo If integrity means more than any of these baubles, then prepare to fail. The theme this week is The Rot Within. The sordid story of Harvey Weinstein is being presented as an aberration. It is not an aberration; it is merely a […]
