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Category Archives: Sociology
Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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The Recession Will Be Unevenly Distributed
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Those households, enterprises and organizations that have no debt, a very low cost basis and a highly flexible, adaptable structure will survive and even prosper. The coming recession will be unevenly distributed, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Bureaucracy, Corruption, Debt, Deficit, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Ratchet Effect, recession, Tech Industry
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Retconning History
By CH Source: The Hipcrime Vocab “He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past.”–George Orwell “The mistake of judging the men of other periods by the morality of our own day … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, History, Labor, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged capitalism, culture, Economics, George Orwell, history, individualism, Jobs, Labor, Michael Hudson, nation-state, politics, Retconning, retroactive continuity, Revisionism, society, Work
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Reflections on 2018, Forecasting 2019
By Robert J. Burrowes In many ways it is painful to reflect on the year 2018; a year of vital opportunities lost when so much is at stake. Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, freedom of speech, Geoengineering, Geopolitics, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Inequality, internet freedom, media, Militarization, military spending, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged 2018, 2019, censorship, Climate Change, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, economic inequality, elites, Energy, environment, Extinction, Famine, financial crisis, geoengineering, GMOs, Government, human trafficking, INF Treaty, Militarism, military spending, Peace, pollution, Poverty, Privacy, psychology, Slavery, State Crime, Violence, wall street, war, Wealth Concentration
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Hyperreality (or What Not There Isn’t to Believe?)
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times ‘The attraction of the void is irresistible.’ ~Jean Baudrillard If you feel like you are unsure of what is real and what is unreal then you are not alone. Our materialistic mode of … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Health, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Hyperreality, media, Perception, Philosophy, Postmodern Theory, psychology, Reality, Semiotics, Simulation, society, Sociology, technology
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The Evidence Pours In: Poverty Is Getting Much Worse In America
By Paul Buchheit Source: Occupy.com A White House report recently proclaimed that the “War on Poverty is largely over and a success.” United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said it was “ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America.” Well-positioned Americans … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged America, culture, economic inequality, Economic Mobility, Economics, environment, financial crisis, GDP, Health, Homelessness, infant mortality rate, Living Wage, Mental Health, pollution, Poverty, Social Safety Net, society, unemployment
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In Defense of the Human Individual
By Robert J. Burrowes While it is now very late in the life cycle of homo sapiens, with extinction now due to consign us to Earth’s fossil record – see ‘Will humans be extinct by 2026?’ – I would like … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Children, Conformity, culture, environment, Individuality, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nonviolence, Philosophy, psychology, School, Socialization, society, Violence
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On Becoming Free – What Are We Really Freeing Ourselves For?
By Gary Z. McGee Source: Waking Times “I must create a system or be enslaved by another Man’s.” ~William Blake Becoming free is creating your own virtuous system despite being outflanked by unvirtuous systems controlled by unvirtuous men. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, culture, Environment, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Revolution, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Consciousness, culture, Ecology, environment, Freedom, Health, Moral Virtue, Morality, nonaggression principle, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, spirituality, systems
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