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Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment
Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment The Great Simplification #126 with Daniel Schmachtenberger Today, I welcome back Daniel Schmachtenberger to unpack a new paper, which he co-authored, entitled Development in Progress, an analysis on the history of progress and the consequences of ‘advancement’. Current mainstream narratives sell the story that progress is […]
European Energy Prices Soar As Western Media Hypes Imminent Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
European Energy Prices Soar As Western Media Hypes Imminent Russian Invasion Of Ukraine European natural gas and electricity prices jumped as Western corporate media continued to drum up headlines of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine that could spark World War 3. Benchmark European gas prices rose more than 10% to 84 euros a megawatt-hour, the highest […]
Exergy-driven crisis
Exergy-driven crisis Media has little in the way of memory and the rest of us struggle to remember much of what happened more than a week ago. And so, the narratives we use in an attempt to make sense of the rapidly changing world we are living in, tend to revolve around short-term tribal talking […]
A Few Bananas Short of a Bunch
A FEW BANANAS SHORT OF A BUNCH “You’ve been living in a dream world, Neo.” – Morpheus “How did you go (morally) bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” ― With abject apologies to Ernest Hemingway and his “The Sun Also Rises” “I reject your reality and substitute my own.” – Adam Savage from Mythbusters I have this […]
For Stocks, Any Election Outcome is Now the Best Outcome, Disputed Election, Long Legal Mess, Split Government Without Stimulus, Whatever…
For Stocks, Any Election Outcome is Now the Best Outcome, Disputed Election, Long Legal Mess, Split Government Without Stimulus, Whatever… This is funny in terms of stock-market “narratives” during these crazy times. At first, long ago, the narrative was that a Trump victory would boost stocks. And then when this became more uncertain, the narrative […]
What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable?
What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable? The real downside of the green-profit narrative has been that it created the assumption in many people’s minds that the solution to climate change and other environmental dilemmas is technical, and that policy makers and industrialists will implement it for us, so that the way we live doesn’t need […]
Revolutionary Boiling Point, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Revolutionary Boiling Point, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Still mad at China’s brutal authoritarian government for imprisoning Julian Assange after his journalism exposed Chinese war crimes. ~ Arresting people for future crimes is called “pre-crime”, and it’s the stuff of dystopian horror fiction. Violently dominating an entire planet because another […]
Covid-19 and Our Competing Narratives
Covid-19 and Our Competing Narratives It’s fascinating to watch the competing narratives regarding Covid-19 and risk assessment duke it out across the media universe (from social to mainstream to alternate media). As I’ve increasingly come to believe, we all believe what we want to believe. The continuum of beliefs seems to be that: we have […]
How’s That Alternative Reality Working Out For You?
How’s That Alternative Reality Working Out For You? Two plus two equals four. Epstein didn’t kill himself. At the end of 1984, Slavery is Freedom, two plus two equals five, and Winston Smith loves Big Brother. The Party has destroyed Smith’s mind, he embraces whatever narratives it promulgates. The fictive Party has solved the conundrum that […]
Propaganda Narratives Are Custom-Made For Each Ideological Echo Chamber
Propaganda Narratives Are Custom-Made For Each Ideological Echo Chamber Yesterday I started a thread on Twitter lamenting the fact that support for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange has been eroded all across the political spectrum since 2016 by the establishment smear campaign. I started the thread because I’d just been reflecting on how some of the first clumsy articles I […]
The Imperial Propaganda Machine: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The Imperial Propaganda Machine: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix It’s important to avoid fake news, Russian media or conspiracy theorists. We must only trust those reputable news outlets who tell us that neoliberalism is working fine, that US foreign policy is perfectly sane, and that protests are only happening in Hong Kong […]
The Incredible Shrinking Overton Window
The Incredible Shrinking Overton Window “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the […]
Twitter Suspends Accounts For Propaganda, Has Literal Propagandist As High-Level Executive
Twitter Suspends Accounts For Propaganda, Has Literal Propagandist As High-Level Executive Middle East Eye‘s Ian Cobain has published an exclusive titled “Twitter executive for Middle East is British Army ‘psyops’ soldier”, exposing the fact that Twitter’s senior editorial executive for Europe, the Middle East and Africa also works for an actual, literal propaganda unit in the British military called the […]
