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July 9, 2024 Readings
July 9, 2024 Readings The meme that is destroying Western civilisation Part V–Steve Keen Food Ecomodernism And The Emptying Of Politics, Part 1–Chris Smaje Global News Round-up: Let them Eat Bugs–Robert Malone After Leftist Lobbying, German Bank Kills AfD Donation Account–Armageddon Prose Weak Data Says a Recession Has Already Started, Let’s Now Discuss When – […]
Our Crisis of Competence
Our Crisis of Competence If this is what passes for competence while we cheerlead “the Roaring 20s”, then our delusion has reached “what looks like a permanently high plateau.” That America is mired in a crisis of competence appears to be yet another issue that can’t be addressed directly as it might upset the narrative control that all […]
Living on Uneasy Street
Living on Uneasy Street It’s nice to anticipate sunny weather, but it’s a good idea to carry an umbrella just in case the forecasts prove overly optimistic. Yes, the market will rally if World War III didn’t start last night. The market will also rally if World War III does start, because the Federal Reserve will […]
Staving Off Revolution
Staving Off Revolution If the leadership chooses happy-story PR and toothless reforms for show in the hopes it will all blow over, these subterfuges have the potential to push dissatisfaction beyond the point of control. Whatever else we might say or think about the leadership class, they tend to have a keen sense of self-preservation. The […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXII–Government: Constantly Forsaking Our Ecological Systems to Chase the Perpetual Growth Chalice
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXII December 7, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Government: Constantly Forsaking Our Ecological Systems to Chase the Perpetual Growth Chalice Todays’ contemplation has been prompted by the usual shenanigans of government. In this case, the government of my home province of Ontario, Canada. As regular readers of […]
What Happens When There’s Nobody Left to Save Us?
What Happens When There’s Nobody Left to Save Us? Passively waiting for centralized powers to “save us” from their own excesses is not a solution. It’s no exaggeration to say that our way of life depends on somebody somewhere saving us from the excesses that are the bedrock of our way of life. What excesses, you […]
How We Fail: Framing the Problem to be Fixable with an Existing Solution
How We Fail: Framing the Problem to be Fixable with an Existing Solution We say we want solutions, but we actually want a specific subset of solutions: those that already meet with our approval. The possibility that none of these pre-approved solutions will actually resolve the problem is rejected because we are wedded to the […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIX–Geopolitics: It’s About Wealth Extraction and Generation For the Ruling Class
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIX October 2, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Geopolitics: It’s About Wealth Extraction and Generation For the Ruling Class My very short contemplation today is my comment on an article that was posted in a Facebook group (Peak Oil) that I belong to. It is preceded by […]
What If There Are No Solutions?
What If There Are No Solutions? The unencumbered realist concludes that there are no solutions within a status quo structure that is itself the problem. Realists who question received wisdom and conclude the status quo is untenable are quickly labeled pessimists because the zeitgeist expects a solution is always at hand–preferably a technocratic one that requires zero […]
I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I’m Just Tired
I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I’m Just Tired The midterm elections, the “most important elections of our lifetimes,” are over. Whoever won, it wasn’t really going to change much. Today’s system is simply too deeply entrenched. While the much-touted differences between America’s political parties get obsessive, hysterical attention, the sameness of Imperial corruption, waste […]
Ministry of Manipulation: No Wonder Trust and Credibility Have Been Lost
Ministry of Manipulation: No Wonder Trust and Credibility Have Been Lost Now that every financial game in America has been rigged to benefit the few at the expense of the many, trust and credibility has evaporated like an ice cube on a summer day in Death Valley. Here is America in a nutshell: we no […]
The System Isn’t There To Protect Us From Criminals, It’s To Protect Criminals From Us
The System Isn’t There To Protect Us From Criminals, It’s To Protect Criminals From Us Listen to a reading of this article: Iraq war architect Donald Rumsfeld has died. Not in a prison cell in The Hague, not murdered by bombs or bullets, but peacefully in his home, surrounded by loved ones, a week and a […]
Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op
Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op Listen to this article: The world’s two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are in a dispute with NASA over whose private space exploration corporation will get the $2.9 billion […]
Seven Countries In Five Years: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Seven Countries In Five Years: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Part of the problem is that the most influential voices are people for whom the status quo has worked out well. Celebrities. Politicians. Pundits. Plutocrats. Meanwhile those who’ve been crushed by existing systems are voiceless. This creates the illusion that those systems […]
This Is How It Ends: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
This Is How It Ends: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air While the Federal Reserve and the Billionaire Class push the stock market to new highs to promote a false facade of prosperity, everyday life will fall apart. How will the status quo collapse? An open conflict–a civil war, an insurrection, a coup–appeals to our […]
