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It’s Time to Step Into the Arena
It’s Time to Step Into the Arena There’s a passage in Teddy Roosevelt’s famous 1910 “Citizenship in a Republic” speech I want to share with you today: If a man’s efficiency is not guided and regulated by a moral sense, then the more efficient he is the worse he is, the more dangerous to the body politic. […]
You’re Being Conditioned to Live in a “Smart City” – Resist It
You’re Being Conditioned to Live in a “Smart City” – Resist It And at the dead center of it all is Eric Schmidt. Well before Americans understood the threat of Covid-19, Schmidt had been on an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign pushing precisely the “Black Mirror” vision of society that Cuomo has just empowered […]
What Are You Gonna Do About It?
What Are You Gonna Do About It? Tucked into the recent recovery bill was a provision granting the Federal Reserve the right to set up a $450 billion bailout plan without following key provisions of the federal open meetings law, including announcing its meetings or keeping most records about them, according to a POLITICO review […]
A Shaky Foundation
A Shaky Foundation And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.– Jimi Hendrix There’s a widespread belief out there that the U.S. and the global economy in general is on much sounder footing ever since the financial crisis of a decade ago. Unfortunately, this false assumption has resulted in widespread complacency and […]
Critical Thinking Has Never Been More Important
Critical Thinking Has Never Been More Important There are several reasons I spend so much time discussing and analyzing the current state of affairs. The primary motivation, aside from a drive to share personal opinions and spread awareness, is to encourage people to think critically. I don’t want readers to agree with everything I say, […]
Zerohedge’s Twitter Account is Permanently Banished
Zerohedge’s Twitter Account is Permanently Banished Most of you reading this will be aware that Zerohedge’s prolific and highly popular twitter account with over 670,000 followers was on the receiving end of a lifetime ban by the Twitter politburo. This post won’t focus on the details of this specific ban, but if you want to […]
Localism in the 2020s (Part 4) – Creating More Voluntary Unions
Localism in the 2020s (Part 4) – Creating More Voluntary Unions Disclaimer: I don’t have answers to everything. In fact, I probably don’t have answers to anything at all, just some thoughts on what’s wrong with the structure of governance around the world (it’s too centralized and authoritarian) and some general ideas about what direction we […]
Localism in the 2020s (Part 3) – Scaling Politics
Localism in the 2020s (Part 3) – Scaling Politics Today’s post will outline a framework through which I’ve come to view politics, as well as life in general. It will identify and examine various units of sovereignty as they exist in the contemporary U.S., since that’s the political system I’m most familiar with. Nevertheless, the […]
Localism in the 2020s (Part 2) – Facial Recognition, Psilocybin and Beyond
Localism in the 2020s (Part 2) – Facial Recognition, Psilocybin and Beyond Contrary to popular opinion, I think a loss of faith in Washington D.C. and its institutions is entirely rational and healthy. Maintaining faith in something due to tradition or the fumes of hope won’t lead to anything productive, rather, it’s preferable to honestly […]
Another Stupid War
Another Stupid War All I wanted to do this week was work on part 2 of my localism series, but circumstances quickly got the best of me. The assassination of Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani was an event of such historical significance, I feel obligated to detail my thoughts on what it means and how […]
Monetary Looting
Monetary Looting The United States has historically bragged about its free and transparent markets. But what the Fed is doing today is pulling a dark curtain around the financing of this so-called free and transparent market. The public has no idea which Wall Street firms have received this $3 trillion or why they can’t borrow […]
Three Major Imbalances – Financial, Trust and Geopolitical
Three Major Imbalances – Financial, Trust and Geopolitical But greed is a bottomless pitAnd our freedom’s a jokeWe’re just taking a pissAnd the whole world must watch the sad comic displayIf you’re still free start running awayCause we’re coming for you! – Conor Oberst, “Land Locked Blues” It’s hard to believe 2020 is just around […]
The Illiberal World Order
The Illiberal World Order From a big picture perspective, the largest rift in American politics is between those willing to admit reality and those clinging to a dishonest perception of a past that never actually existed. Ironically, those who most frequently use “post-truth” to describe our current era tend to be those with the most distorted […]
Algorithmic Feudalism
Algorithmic Feudalism Stiegler insists, however, that authentic thinking and calculative thinking are not mutually exclusive; indeed, mathematical rationality is one of our major prosthetic extensions. But the catastrophe of the digital age is that the global economy, powered by computational “reason” and driven by profit, is foreclosing the horizon of independent reflection for the majority […]
Bolivia Adds to the Ranks of Global Political Chaos
Bolivia Adds to the Ranks of Global Political Chaos Two days before Bolivian president Evo Morales was pushed out by the country’s military, Mark Weisbot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research penned a warning about what was happening, and what might unfold, in a Nation article titled, The Trump Administration Is Undercutting Democracy in Bolivia. He […]
