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The Long Cycles Have All Turned: Look Out Below
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Long cycles operate at such a glacial pace they’re easily dismissed as either figments of fevered imagination or this time it’s different. But since Nature and human nature remain stubbornly grounded by the same … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Capital, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, hubris, Inflation, Interest Rates, Labor, Late Stage Capitalism, Oligarchy, overspeculation, social disorder, social order, Wealth Gap
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Wake From The Nightmare Or Eternal Sleep For Humanity
By Frank Scott Source: Dissident Voice The tradition of the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living. — Karl Marx Marx offered a thought for all seasons but one that might especially ring true during … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, media, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Capital, capitalism, corporate media, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, empire, financial crisis, France, Iran, Karl Marx, Morality, Philosophy, Poverty, propaganda, recession, Russia, war, Yellow Vests
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Accelerating Capital: Completed Nihilism and The Indebted Man
By S.C. Hickman Source: Southern Nights In his book Data Trash (1993), Arthur Kroker writes that in the field of digital acceleration, more information means less meaning, because meaning slows info circulation. In the sphere of the digital economy, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, media, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Alberto Toscano, Capital, capitalism, Debt, Deleuze, Dystopia, Economics, Franco Berardi, Guattari, Neoliberalism, Nietzsche, Nihilism, Philosophy
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I think therefore I am capital
By Jamie Goldrick Source: Adbusters In the worldview of the Cree, life is lived along a trail of experiences. Sharing experience with others is a result of the crossing of two life trails. Life is experienced as a tangled pattern … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, History, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Adam Smith, Animism, Anthropology, Capital, capitalism, Commodification, Cree, culture, environment, nature, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Progress, society, spirituality, technology, Value
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The Acquisitive Self, Minus the Self
By Natasha Vargas-Cooper Source: The Baffler Los Angeles isn’t exactly the place that comes to mind when you think of decorous restraint in the display of wealth, even in the dregs of the Great Recession. Here in my hometown, possibly … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Humor, media, Philosophy, society, Sociology
Tagged #richkids, 1%, Capital, Class War, Damien Hirst, economic inequality, Economics, income gap, Instagram, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Rich Kids of Instagram, RKOI, Selfies, Wealth, Wealth Disparity, Wealthy
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