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Tag Archives: Alienation
Generation Numb: How Losing My Phone Exposed Me to the Pain of My Peers
This terrible void of which everyone stays pleasantly unobservant is the unofficial sickness of Gen Z. By Ben Scheer Source: ScheerPost I hadn’t planned to give up my smartphone. After all, I was starting my sophomore year of college and … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, education, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Alienation, Anxiety, Awareness, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Distraction, Dystopia, Education, Internet, media media literacy, Mindfulness, Philosophy, psychology, Smartphones, Social Media, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology
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“The Cost Of Sanity, In This Society, Is A Certain Level Of Alienation”
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com The late psychonaut/philosopher Terence McKenna once said “The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation,” and I think my regular readers will immediately and experientially understand exactly what he was … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Alienation, Consciousness, consensus reality, corporate media, culture, establishment narrative, Insanity, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mainstream Media, Philosophy, propaganda, society, Sociology, spirituality, Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, Worldview
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This holiday season, American workers have little to celebrate
By Danny Haiphong Source: Intrepid Report Every year, much of the U.S. population celebrates Thanksgiving and Christmas to show appreciation for their families and friends. Thanksgiving normalizes the colonial origins of the United States and erases the brutality of the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, propaganda, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Alienation, austerity, capitalism, Christmas, Debt, economic crisis, Economics, Education, Financial Crash, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Poverty, privatization, protests, Stagnant Wages, Thanksgiving, Working Class
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Jeff Bezos’s Corporate Takeover of Our Lives
How Amazon’s relentless pursuit of profit is squeezing us all—and what we can do about it By David Dayen Source: In These Times AMAZON IS AN ONLINE RETAILER. It also runs a marketplace for other online retailers. It’s also a shipper … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, media, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, Alexa, Alienation, Amazon, big data, CIA, Cloud Computing, Corporate Lobbyists, Dystopia, e-commerce, Economics, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariat, Retail Apocalypse, Small Business, Social Isolation, Technocracy, technology, Worker's Rights
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Slow suicide and the abandonment of the world
By Edward Curtin Source: Intrepid Report “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Alienation, Conformity, Consumerism, culture, Death, depression, Experience, fear, Life, Philosophy, psychology, Rebellion, Slow Suicide, society, Sociology, suicide
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On the Process of Awakening
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We cannot help but feel a hunger for authenticity, honesty, spiritual solace and human connection, but these are precisely what is scarce in our social and economic structure. There is a tremendous … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Labor, Philosophy, Podcasts, propaganda, Psychology, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology, Video, Work
Tagged Alienation, central banks, Cryptocurrencies, Economics, Money, Philosophy, Precariat, society, Spiritual Awakening, Systemic Collapse
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