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Abnormalize The Status Quo
Abnormalize The Status Quo If we’d been living in a healthy society and then suddenly had this society’s sick, insane status quo thrust upon us by powerful people, we’d have all been out in the streets making life very hard for those powerful people in an instant. We are in the same situation now. We […]
Seeds Of Awakening: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Seeds Of Awakening: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix If we’re honest with ourselves, electoral politics has failed and we need a revolution. If we’re really honest with ourselves, revolution will fail until propaganda is eliminated. If we’re really really honest with ourselves, everything will fail without a mass-scale awakening. ~ The most revolutionary thing […]
A Surefire Cure For Despair
A Surefire Cure For Despair “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”~ Samuel Beckett Sometimes it just gets to be too goddamn much. You just finished a soul-draining argument with a family member who insists that Putin controls all major world events because that’s what the TV said so it must be true, then you […]
Resistance
Resistance The status quo is always difficult to alter. Resistance is a normal reaction to change. The current theatrics in Washington, DC are especially revealing. Donald Trump is many things to many people. His supporters believe him to be a savior of the American system and way of life. His opponents see him as a […]
Once “Prosperity” Falters, the Legitimacy of the Status Quo Evaporates
Once “Prosperity” Falters, the Legitimacy of the Status Quo Evaporates All we’re doing is waiting for the fake “prosperity” to crumble, and the resulting loss of credibility and legitimacy will follow like night follows day. The citizenry of corrupt regimes ruled by self-serving elites tolerate this oppressive misrule for one reason and only one reason: […]
Forget “Money”: What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil and Food–and a Shared National Purpose
Forget “Money”: What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil and Food–and a Shared National Purpose If you want to identify tomorrow’s superpowers, overlay maps of fresh water, energy, grain/cereal surpluses and arable land. The status quo measures wealth with “money,” but “money” is not what’s valuable. “Money” (in quotes because the global economy operates on intrinsically […]
The Japanification of the World
The Japanification of the World Zombification / Japanification is not success; it is only the last desperate defense of a failing, brittle status quo by doing more of what’s failed. A recent theme in the financial media is the Japanification of Europe.Japanification refers to a set of economic and financial conditions that have come to characterize Japan’s […]
Fight The Establishment’s Narratives By Getting Clear On Your Own
Fight The Establishment’s Narratives By Getting Clear On Your Own Anti-establishment movements are a mess. Whether they’re left-wing or right-wing, whether they’re statist or anarchist, whether they’re organized or decentralized, whether they place emphasis on official or unofficial narratives, any circle of people who are interested in opposing the status quo on a deep, meaningful level […]
If We Can No Longer Tell the Truth, We’ve Failed
If We Can No Longer Tell the Truth, We’ve Failed The Gulag Archipelago is not a distant memory; it lives on in every modern state, cloaked with modern-day technologies and the well-worn tools of suppression. The last thing addicts want to hear is the truth: the only thing more terrifying than the truth is the […]
2019: Fragmented, Unevenly Distributed, Asymmetric, Opaque
2019: Fragmented, Unevenly Distributed, Asymmetric, Opaque Add up Fragmented, Unevenly Distributed, Asymmetric and Opaque and you get a world spinning out of centralized control. Here are the key dynamics of 2019: fragmented, unevenly distributed, asymmetric, opaque. Want to know what’s happening with inflation, deflation, recession, populism, etc.? It depends on what you own, when you […]
Why I’m Hopeful
Why I’m Hopeful A more humane, sustainable world lies just beyond the edge of the Status Quo. Readers often ask me to post something hopeful, and I understand why: doom-and-gloom gets tiresome. Human beings need hope just as they need oxygen, and the destruction of the Status Quo via over-reach and internal contradictions doesn’t leave […]
Why Everything That Needs to Be Fixed Remains Permanently Broken
Why Everything That Needs to Be Fixed Remains Permanently Broken Just in case you missed what’s going on in France: the status quo in Europe is doomed. The status quo has a simple fix for every crisis and systemic problem: 1. create currency out of thin air 2. give it to super-wealthy banks, financiers and […]
No Matter How You Vote, Politicians Don’t Represent You
No Matter How You Vote, Politicians Don’t Represent You One of the most foundational assumptions behind modern democracy is that the elected officials somehow represent the interests of those who elected them. Advocates for the political status quo flog this position repeatedly, claiming that taxation and the regulatory state are all morally legitimate because the […]
Technocrats Rule: Democracy Is OK as Long as the People Rubberstamp Our Leadership
Technocrats Rule: Democracy Is OK as Long as the People Rubberstamp Our Leadership Technocrats rule the world, East and West alike. We are in a very peculiar ideological and political place in which Democracy (oh sainted Democracy) is a very good thing, unless the voters reject the technocrat class’s leadership. Then the velvet gloves come […]
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm The gathering storm cannot be dissipated with propaganda and bribes. July 4th is an appropriate day to borrow Winston Churchill’s the gathering storm to describe the existential crisis that will envelope America within the next decade. There is no single cause of the gathering storm; in complex systems, dynamics feed back into […]
