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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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Kafka Warned Us
By Dan Corjescu Source: CounterPunch Kafka’s The Trial can be read in retrospect as a prelude to the Twentieth/Twenty-First century. Although probably not written as prophecy, Kafka’s short unfinished book nevertheless provides a road map to the terrors of the current Surveillance … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Law, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Bureaucracy, culture, Dystopia, Government, Joseph K, Kafka, law, Liberty, police state, Power, society, surveillance state, technology, The State, The Trial, Totalitarianism
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4 Ways to Throw a Monkey Wrench into the War Machine
By Gary ‘Z’ McGee Source: Waking Times “When a public is stressed and confused, a big lie told repeatedly and unchallenged can become accepted truth.” ~George Orwell One of the biggest lies told is the false notion that in order to … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Empire, Militarization, patriotism, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, anti-war, Authority, Bureaucracy, Disobey, empire, George Orwell, Immorality, Military, Morality, Nietzsche, obedience, patriotism, propaganda, Statism, war
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Four Kinds of Dystopia
By Darren Allen Source: ExpressiveEgg.org The twentieth century saw four basic visions of hell on earth, or dystopia. These were: Orwellian. Rule by autocratic totalitarian people, party or elite group, limitation of choice, repression of speech and repression of minorities, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, media, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bureaucracy, Dystopia, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Newspeak, Philip K. Dick, PKD, society, Totalitarianism, Virtuality
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Anarchy vs. Statism: Uncontrolled Order Over Controlled Chaos
By Gary ‘Z’ McGee Source: Waking Times “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” ~Frederick Douglas Caught up, as we are, in the politics of statism, it is often extremely difficult to see the forest for the trees. We’re … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Empire, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Anarchism, Anarchy, Bureaucracy, Chaos, conditioning, Derrick Jensen, Government, Order, Philosophy, propaganda, society, Statism, Terence McKenna
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Review: The Utopia of Rules, by David Graeber
By Jonathan Woolley Source: Gods & Radicals Reading a book about bureaucracy may not sound like an exciting way to spend a weekend off with my family. And yet, having just started David Graeber’s latest – A Utopia of Rules … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, conditioning, culture, Economics, History, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged A Utopia of Rules, Anarchism, Authority, Bureaucracy, Comics, Corporatism, David Graeber, Economics, Labor, Liberalism, media, Neoliberalism, police, Power, technology, Violence, Work
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A Universal Basic Income Is The Bipartisan Solution To Poverty We’ve Been Waiting For
What if the government simply paid everyone enough so that no one was poor? It’s an insane idea that’s gaining an unlikely alliance of supporters. By Ben Schiller Source: FastCoexist.com There’s a simple way to end poverty: the government … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Philosophy, Recession, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged automation, Basic Income, Bureaucracy, Conservatives, Income Inequality, Liberals, Libertarians, Poverty, Precariat, Robots, technology, Universal Basic Income, Wealth Gap, Wealth Redistribution, Welfare, Workfare
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