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Healing from Dissonance and Dystopia
Accepting the inevitability of cascading collapse creates space to build alternatives beyond a system based on extraction and exploitation. By Natalie Holmes Source: Post Growth Institute The beach was pure perfection. March’s sunshine warmed the wintry air. Cobalt waves lapped … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, war
Tagged capitalism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Hanya Yanagihara, Joanna Macy, Monika Bielskyte, Philosophy, post growth, protopia, society, To Paradise, Utopia
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Our Financial System Is Optimized for Sociopaths and Exploitation
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We live in a peculiar juncture of history in which truth has been banished as a threat to the maximization of private gain, i.e. the hyper-pursuit of self-interest. Evidence that supports a causal chain has been … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, Corporate Crime, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Exploitation, financial crisis, Financial System, Labor, Oligarchy, psychopaths, self interest, sociopaths
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The Great Battle for the Future
By Cory Morningstar Source: Organic Radicals A nightmare totalitarian industrial world, in which everything living is being poisoned to death and in which dehumanised people are subjected to full-spectrum physical and psychological control by slave-masters they never dare question. So … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Health, History, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Uncategorized
Tagged activism, capitalism, COVID 19, Dystopia, Economics, elites, fascism, Gerrard Winstanley, John Ball, Kett’s Rebellion, Pandemic, peasants’ revolt, Revolution, Silvia Federici, surveillance state, Technocracy, the English Revolution, this period in her book Caliban and the Witch, Totalitarianism
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The War on Reality
By CJ Hopkins Source: Consent Factory, Inc. So, the War on Reality is going splendidly. Societies all across the world have been split into opposing, irreconcilable realities. Neighbors, friends, and even family members are bitterly divided into two hostile camps, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Health, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Authoritarianism, capitalism, coronavirus, Covid-19, culture, Dystopia, fascism, New Normal, Pandemic, Philosophy, police state, Populism, Reality, society, Technocracy, Vaccines
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USA 2021: Capitalism For The Powerless, Crony-Socialism For The Powerful
By Tyler Durden Source: Zero Hedge The supposed “choice” between “capitalism” and “socialism” is a useful fabrication masking the worst of all possible worlds we inhabit: Capitalism for the powerless and Crony-Socialism for the powerful. Capitalism’s primary dynamics are reserved solely for the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, Corporate Welfare, Crony Capitalism, Crony Socialism, Dystopia, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Oligarchy, sociolism, US government
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Where’s Dirk Gently When You Need Him?
By Erik Assadourian Source: Resilience Did you hear? A supersized cargo ship got wedged in the Suez Canal on March 23rd? If you didn’t, you must do pretty well at avoiding the news, social media, and late night TV. But … Continue reading
Lee Camp: It’s Time for Major Wealth Redistribution — Yes, I Mean It.
No need to be all apologetic about it, either, since we would just be reclaiming the trillions taken by the billionaires. By Lee Camp Source: ScheerPost.org It’s time for wealth redistribution. There, I said it. I know it’s the third … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Humor, Inequality, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged capitalism, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Wealth Redistribution
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The Top 10% Is Doing Just Fine, The Middle Class Is Dying on the Vine
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Please study these charts as a means of understanding the inevitability of economic stagnation and a revolt of the decapitalized middle class. I’ve been covering the decline of America’s middle class for … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, decapitalization, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Labor, middleclass, Monopoly, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Productivity
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