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Is the United States a Failed Society?
The facts have become too dire to ignore any longer. By Chad Mulligan Source: Hipcrime Vocab I’d like to pose a question I’ve been dancing around for the last couple of posts: Is the United States a failed society? That may seem … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, culture, deaths of despair, Dystopia, Economics, empire, Failed State, Global Economy, life expectancy, Mass Shootings, Oligarchy, Public Health, society, Sociology, sociopathy
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How Does Degrowth Apply to Our Minds?
By Erin Remblance Source: resilience As an Australian, it troubles me that if the whole world lived like us, we would need 4.5 planet Earths. Thanks to over-consuming nations like mine, worldwide we are living as if we have 1.75 planet Earths, a … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, Philosophy, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged Alan Watts, Antonio Gramsci, capitalism, Consumerism, cultural hegemony, culture, Degrowth, Economics, environment, Federico Demaria, Harald Welzer, industrialisation, Jeff Sparrow, Philosophy, Serge Latouche, society, Sociology, Will Steffen
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IN THE CULTURE OF HUNGRY GHOSTS
By Dylan Charles Source: Waking Times “No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.” ― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction Something wicked bubbles just beneath the surface of the collective conscience. Our society … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Consumerism, culture, Gabor Maté, Hungry Ghost, Karma, nature, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, spirituality
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The Fourth Turn, Turn, Turn
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The cycles of The Fourth Turning, Fischer and Turchin are all in alignment at this point in history.. The 1997 book The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy proposed a cyclical pattern of four 20-year … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Ages of Discord, Consumerism, David Hackett Fischer, Degrowth, Economic Collapse, Economics, Energy, environment, financial crisis, Income Inequality, Industry, Neil Howe, Oligarchy, Peter Turchin, technology, The Fourth Turnind, The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History, transition economy, Wealth Gap, William Strauss
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Consider the Chickens
Intelligence, ethics, and the inner lives of animals By Rafia Zakaria Source: The Baffler I OWE CHICKENS AN APOLOGY. Not only have I been eating them until very recently, but I have refused to even consider the possibility of a … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged animal rights, cognitive science, Consciousness, culture, environment, Ethics, Evolution, Intelligence Community, Justin Gregg, Nietzsche Were a Narwhal, Philosophy, science, society
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Make Sure You Download the Latest Ministry of Propaganda Updates
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds It’s time once again to check for Ministry of Propaganda updates, which like Windows and iOS is constantly being updated to counter new threats and enhance the user experience (heh). Much like the other … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Big Tech, Consumerism, Dystopia, Economics, environment, Neofeudalism, Neuromarketing, Philip K. Dick, PKD, propaganda, Psyops, Technocracy, unsustainability
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What Will You Say When Millions Of People Starve To Death?
By Michael Snyder Source: End of the American Dream For a long time, those of us that were claiming that a global famine was coming were widely mocked. The skeptics could see the exact same trends that everyone else could … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged Africa, Agriculture, Beef prices, cattle shortage, Drought, Dystopia, Food Shortage, Food System, Global Crisis, mass starvation, megadrought, Somalia, World Health Organization
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