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Can a Nation Prosper as its Institutions Fail?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Economists focus on what can be easily measured: sales, profits, prices, tax revenues, etc. Since the decay and failure of institutions isn’t easily quantified, this decay doesn’t register in the realm of economics. Since it … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged central banks, Consumerism, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, financial crisis, Financialization, Health Care, Oligarchy, Samo Burja, society, Why Civilizations Collapse
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Why Don’t People “Trust The Science?” Because Scientists Are Often Caught Lying
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.us There has been an unfortunate shift in Western educational practices in the past few decades away from what we used to call “critical thinking.” In fact, critical thinking was once a fundamental staple of US … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, education, Health, media, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Anthony Fauci, Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, Covid-19, Covide Vaccines, Critical Thinking, culture, Education, EPA, FDA, GMOs, Kary Mullis, Monsanto, Pandemic, PCR, Pfizer, Public Health, science, society, Technocracy, World Economic Forum
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The end of childhood play
By Brian Kaller Source: resilience Recorded history is the history of adults–generals, statesmen, explorers and scientists–but all of those adults began their path as children. And running beneath this official history is the unofficial history of childhood games and rituals, … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Health, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged Childhood, Consciousness, culture, Education, games, history, nature, Philosophy, play, psychology, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology, Tradition
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THE WAY OF THE MASTER: LIFE AS APPRENTICESHIP
By Gary Z McGee Source: Waking Times “It is the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. Alienating yourself from your inclinations can only lead to … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, education, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Carl Jung, Consciousness, culture, Education, Mind, Philosophy, psychology, society, spirituality
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When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion. The consequences of the drip-drip-drip of moral decay is difficult to discern in … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, military spending, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, empire, financial crisis, Marketing, Medicine, national defense, Planned obsolescence, Systemic Collapse, Technocracy, technology
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America Is Now a Kleptocrapocracy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds I’ve coined a new portmanteau word to describe America’s descent: kleptocrapocracy, a union of kleptocracy (a nation ruled by kleptocrats) and crapocracy, a nation drowning in a moral sewer of rampant self-interest in which … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Academia, Big Tech, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, financial crisis, healthcare, Kleptocracy, kleptocrapocracy, Labor, Oligarchy, Technocracy, Work
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GASLIGHTING: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SHAPING ANOTHER’S REALITY
By Cynthia Chung Source: Waking Times “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.“You must … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, CIA, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, education, Film, History, media, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, Brave New Word, CIA, culture, disinformation, Dystopia, Gaslight, Gaslighting, mind control, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, psychology, society, Sociology, survival instinct, Technocracy, William Sargant
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One Nation Under Greed: The Profit Incentives Driving the American Police State
By By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, education, elites, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, media, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Asset Forfeiture, Authoritarianism, censorship, Compulsory Education, contact tracing programs, corporatocracy, Corruption, Despotism, fascism, Government, Government Contractors, heightened surveillance, law, Lockdowns, mandates, Mass Incarceration, Militarized Police, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, Plutocracy, police state, Police Violence, Private Prisons, restrictions, schools, security industrial complex, surveillance state, US Legal System, war, war profiteers, war spending
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