Category Archives: Consumerism

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

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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

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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

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FILMMAKER REVEALS THE TRUTH ABOUT SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES

By Dylan Charles Source: Waking Times We’re all being conditioned to think and believe certain things without any rational explanation through subliminal messaging in advertising, music, film, television, political propaganda, and military psychological operations. Considering the definition of the word subliminal – … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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