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The Crises and Sacrifices Yet to Come
The Crises and Sacrifices Yet to Come The timing of finally embracing risk and sacrifice as the only option left is exquisitely sensitive: finally caving in a moment too late leads to the system collapsing beyond recovery. The sense that we’re approaching a tipping point into a crisis with no easy resolution is pervasive, a […]
Of Economic Crises and Pandemics: Facebook as Fact, Government as Truth, Big Pharma as God
Of Economic Crises and Pandemics: Facebook as Fact, Government as Truth, Big Pharma as God If events since March 2020 have shown us anything, it is that fear is a powerful weapon for securing hegemony. Any government can manipulate fear about certain things while conveniently ignoring real dangers that a population faces. Author and researcher Robert […]
What are our leaders doing?
What are our leaders doing? What force is powerful enough to synchronize every leader in almost every country to do the wrong thing on almost every covid action without assuming every leader is evil and/or stupid? Why has no one figured out what’s going on, including normally intelligent alt-media? Let’s assume that most of our leaders […]
Rest is good, but resolving global crises means not looking away
Rest is good, but resolving global crises means not looking away Photo by Gary Bell/gettyimages.ca When people do things they shouldn’t, they often try to distract attention from their actions. Guardian writer George Monbiot notes that many corporations fuelling the planet’s destruction spend significant resources to shift attention away from themselves and onto us. “The […]
Grappling with growth
Grappling with growth Synergies and tensions between degrowth and people’s movements We live in an age of converging crises. Only days ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a damning report on the state of the environmental crisis. At the same time, while a few countries are recuperating from the pandemic, an on-going […]
Nature is a jazz band, not a machine
Nature is a jazz band, not a machine We treat it so at our peril From genetic engineering to geoengineering, we treat nature as though it’s a machine. This view of nature has deep roots in Western thought, all the way to Descartes and Hobbs, but it’s a fundamental misconception with potentially disastrous consequences, argues […]
Cyber Polygon: Will The Next Globalist War Game Lead To Another Convenient Catastrophe?
Cyber Polygon: Will The Next Globalist War Game Lead To Another Convenient Catastrophe? Back in April I published an article titled ‘Globalists Will Need Another Crisis In America As Their Reset Agenda Fails’. In it I noted an odd trend which many of us in the liberty media have become aware of over the years – […]
Too Much Centralization Is Turning Everything into a Political Crisis
Too Much Centralization Is Turning Everything into a Political Crisis Is American politics reaching a breaking point? A recent study by researchers from Brown and Stanford Universities certainly paints a grim picture of the state of the national discourse. The study attempts to measure “affective polarization,” defined as the extent to which citizens feel more negatively toward […]
Review of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
Review of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System Introduction This review is a critique of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System by Ian Angus. The review adopted a multi-theoretical framework that combines insights from socio-cognitive terminology theory (STT), legitimation code theory (LCT) and critical discourse […]
Could China’s Overlapping Crises Spiral Out of Control?
Could China’s Overlapping Crises Spiral Out of Control? Threats, propaganda and the Orwellian dissolution of social trust cannot stop a withdrawal from the status quo. Longtime readers know I’ve had an active interest in what differentiates empires/nations that survive crises and those that collapse. There is a lively academic literature on this topic, and it boils […]
Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization?
Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization? To fully and systematically address the climate/energy crisis, the plan will have to be far broader in scope than what is currently being proposed. And while we need to mobilize society as a whole with a World War II-level of effort, the reality is that there’s never been […]
Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences
Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences Photo Source Sakeeb Sabakka | CC BY 2.0 …We can’t save the world by playing by the rules because the rules have to change. Everything needs to change and it has to start today….To all the politicians that pretend to take the climate question seriously, to all […]
Our opposable thumb
Our opposable thumb “Stereoscopic vision, depth perception, certain emotions and other perceptions, and the ability to stretch our thumbs farther than most other species, the ability to build and destroy things, and many other traits individually or in combination separate us from other species, not necessarily all species though. Other animals with opposable thumbs include […]
The Three Crises That Will Synchronize a Global Meltdown by 2025
The Three Crises That Will Synchronize a Global Meltdown by 2025 We’re going to get a synchronized global dynamic, but it won’t be “growth” and stability, it will be DeGrowth and instability. To understand the synchronized global meltdown that is on tap for the 2021-2025 period, we must first stipulate the relationship of “money” to […]
