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Category Archives: Economics
America is exceptional — in all the wrong ways
By Maj. Danny Sjursen Source: Axis of Logic I was born and raised in an America far more Orwellian than many now remember. Matters have gone so far off the rails since 9/11 that few seem to recall the madness … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Health, History, Inequality, Militarization, military spending, patriotism, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, china, Citizen's United, Donald Trump, elliot abrams, Gun Control, iraq, maj. danny sjursen, nationalism, Orwell, patriotism, Ronald Reagan, Russia
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Poor Folks
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well A guy on Facebook I don’t know wrote a version of what has become a kind of set-piece article in today’s America. Here’s a portion: Losing The War of Attrition or How … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged America, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty, society
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It’s really very simple
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov There are times when a loud cry of “The emperor has no clothes!” can be most copacetic. And so, let me point out something quite simple, yet very important. The old world order, to … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, Law, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged America, Corruption, Democracy, empire, Free Enterprise, freedom of religion, Genocide, geopolitics, imperialism, ISIS, Justice, New World Order, Private Property, racism, Ukrainian Neo-nazis, US Foreign Policy, USSR, Western Civilization, Western values
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The ‘Hidden Mechanisms’ That Help Those Born Rich to Excel in Elite Jobs
When two sociologists interviewed highly paid architects, TV producers, actors, and accountants, they encountered work cultures that favor the already affluent. By Joe Pinsker Source: The Atlantic Over the past five years, the sociologists Daniel Laurison and Sam Friedman have … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, education, elites, Inequality, Labor, Psychology, Racism, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Class, culture, economic inequality, Economics, Education, financial cushion, homophily, income gap, Jobs, Meritocracy, psychology, society, Sociology, sponsorship, Wage Disparity, Work
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Surgical Totalitarianism
By Dan Corjescu Source: Dissident Voice You don’t have to control everything to be in total control. In the modern world this seeming paradox is a systemic reality. In the past, classic totalitarian governments sought to literally control every aspect of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, imperialism, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Authoritarianism, Consumerism, Control, empire, Entertainment, geopolitics, Hierarchy, imperialism, social control, society, surveillance state, technology, Totalitarianism
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The Surrealism of the Information War
By Gilbert Mercier Source: News Junkie Post The flow of knowledge and information is commonly considered the main vector of humanity’s progress through history. One would think that in our era, which is rightly called the time of the information … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Corporate Globalization, Corporate Imperialism, corporate news, geopolitics, Global Capitalism, Information Warfare, media, Media Literacy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Media, Systemic Collapse, technology
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A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
By Clifton Mark Source: Aeon ‘We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else …’ Barack Obama, inaugural address, 2013 ‘We must … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, elites, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Bill Gates, Discrimination, Economics, Failure, Gratitude, Labor, Luck, Meritocracy, Neuroscience, Privilege, psychology, Robert Frank, Selfishness, Skill, Success, Work
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Inventing the Future: The Collective Joy of Mark Fisher’s ‘k-punk’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants k-punk By Mark Fisher Foreword by Simon Reynolds, Edited by Darren Ambrose Repeater Books, 2018 A little over two years ago, theorist and cultural critic Mark Fisher took his own life at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Economics, Film, History, media, Media Literacy, Music Video, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged antinatalism, Cultural Theory, culture, Darren Ambrose, hauntology, K-Punk, media, music, Neoliberalism, Nihilism, Philosophy, Precariat, pulp modernism, Simon Reynolds
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