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The Coming War on Wealth and the Wealthy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Here’s looking at you, Federal Reserve–thanks for perfecting ‘legalized looting’ and neofeudalism in America. The problem with pushing a pendulum to its maximum extreme on one end is that it will swing … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, financializzation, Income Inequality, legalized looting, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, Social Unrest, Wealth Gap
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Big Tech, Nostalgia, and Control: Grafton Tanner’s ‘The Circle of the Snake’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech By Grafton Tanner Zero Books, 2020 I’m sure many members of Generation X have taken a moment to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, Center for Humane Technology, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, financial crisis, Google, Grafton Tanner, media, nostalgia, Philosophy, propaganda, Radical nostalgia, society, Technocracy, technology, The Circle of the Snake, Tristan Harris, Utopia
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On Capitalism and the Machine
By Megan Sherman Source: Global Research In 1935, reflecting on the creed of productivity which prevailed in modern technological societies, Bertrand Russell, philosopher, pacifist and devout humanist wrote that: “I think that there is far too much work done in the world, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, imperialism, Labor, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology, Work
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, capitalism, Dystopia, Economics, Fordism, Henry Ford, Labor, Philosophy, Stephen Hawking, Technocracy, technology, Work
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The Top 10%’s Bubble Is About to Burst
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds When the top 10%’s bubble pops in 2021, the loss of illusions/delusions of security and wealth will be shattering to all those who believed artifice and illusory “wealth” were real. A great … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged asset deflation, Dystopia, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Income Inequality, Meritocracy, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Technocracy
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2021 is Already Optimized for Failure
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds One sure way to identify a system “optimized for failure” is if all the insiders are absolutely confident the system is “optimized for my success”. I often discuss optimization here because it offers an … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged 2021, Asset Bubbles, coronavirus, Covid vaccine, Covid-19, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, Financial Collapse, Oligarchy, optimization, Plutocracy, Social Upheaval, Technocracy, Vaccines
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When will the central bankers pay for all the wealth inequality and misery they’ve caused?
By Mitchell Feierstein Source: RT.com Janet Yellen’s been nominated by Joe Biden as Treasury Secretary, despite a poor record as Federal Reserve chair. This is typical of the unwarranted confidence placed in the central bankers who’ve caused so much financial … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Berkshire Financial Services, central banks, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Goldman Sachs, Janet Yellen, Joe Biden, JPMorgan, Mark Carney, US Federal Reserve
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No Escape from Our Techno-Feudal World
By Pepe Escobar Source: Global Research The political economy of the Digital Age remains virtually terra incognita. In Techno-Feudalism, published three months ago in France (no English translation yet), Cedric Durand, an economist at the Sorbonne, provides a crucial, global public service as … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Hackers, internet freedom, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Ayn Rand, capitalism, Cedric Durand, china, Chinese credit system, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Futurism, George Keyworth, Internet, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Silicon Valley, society, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Techno-Feudalism, Technocracy, technology, the Digital Age
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Are Americans Rational?
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov I’ve been holding back on commenting on current events because they are far too silly. At this point it is safe to say that the elections in the US have been thoroughly botched and … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Election Fraud, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged china, Collapse, culture, Democracy, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Election 2020, Election Fraud, empire, Federal Debt, financial crisis, geopolitics, hyperinflation, Iran, iraq, Joe Biden, Oligarchy, Paul Craig Roberts, Republicans, Russia, shale oil, society, US Dollar
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