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How Does Degrowth Apply to Our Minds?
By Erin Remblance Source: resilience As an Australian, it troubles me that if the whole world lived like us, we would need 4.5 planet Earths. Thanks to over-consuming nations like mine, worldwide we are living as if we have 1.75 planet Earths, a … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, Philosophy, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged Alan Watts, Antonio Gramsci, capitalism, Consumerism, cultural hegemony, culture, Degrowth, Economics, environment, Federico Demaria, Harald Welzer, industrialisation, Jeff Sparrow, Philosophy, Serge Latouche, society, Sociology, Will Steffen
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Arguments Against Despair
By David Edwards Source: Media Lens Eliot Jacobson is a retired professor of mathematics and computer science who regularly appears on our Twitter feed discussing the climate crisis. He sends tweets under the grim title, ‘Your “moment of doom” for … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Buddhism, Climate Change, Consciousness, culture, Death, despair, Dystopia, Eliot Jacobson, environment, Extinction, Meditation, Philosophy, psychology, satchitananda, society, Sociology, spirituality, Steve Taylor
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A Cover Up Of Epic Proportions Is Happening In East Palestine, Ohio
By Michael Snyder Source: The Economic Collapse If you want a perfect example of how corrupt our system of government has become, just look at the massive cover up that is going on in East Palestine, Ohio right now. Federal, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Environment, Health, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Science, Social Control, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Airborne Toxic Event, Dystopia, East Palestine, Economic Collapse, environment, Environmental Disaster, EPA, Government, Joe Biden, Mike DeWine, Norfolk Southern, Ohio, Oligarchy, Public Health, train derailment
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The Fourth Turn, Turn, Turn
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The cycles of The Fourth Turning, Fischer and Turchin are all in alignment at this point in history.. The 1997 book The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy proposed a cyclical pattern of four 20-year … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Ages of Discord, Consumerism, David Hackett Fischer, Degrowth, Economic Collapse, Economics, Energy, environment, financial crisis, Income Inequality, Industry, Neil Howe, Oligarchy, Peter Turchin, technology, The Fourth Turnind, The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History, transition economy, Wealth Gap, William Strauss
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Consider the Chickens
Intelligence, ethics, and the inner lives of animals By Rafia Zakaria Source: The Baffler I OWE CHICKENS AN APOLOGY. Not only have I been eating them until very recently, but I have refused to even consider the possibility of a … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged animal rights, cognitive science, Consciousness, culture, environment, Ethics, Evolution, Intelligence Community, Justin Gregg, Nietzsche Were a Narwhal, Philosophy, science, society
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U.S. Government Likely Perpetrated Biggest-Ever Catastrophic Global Warming Event
By Eric Zuesse Source: The Duran On September 28th, the AP headlined “Record methane leak flows from damaged Baltic Sea pipelines” and reported that “Methane leaking from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines is likely to be the biggest burst of the potent … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, False Flag, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, NATO, Neocons, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged black-ops, CIA, Climate Change, Deep State, empire, environment, geopolitics, Germany, Global Warming, imperialism, Joe Biden, Methane, NATO, Nord Stream, Poland, Radek Sikorsky, Russia, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy, Vladimir Putin, war
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Make Sure You Download the Latest Ministry of Propaganda Updates
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds It’s time once again to check for Ministry of Propaganda updates, which like Windows and iOS is constantly being updated to counter new threats and enhance the user experience (heh). Much like the other … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Big Tech, Consumerism, Dystopia, Economics, environment, Neofeudalism, Neuromarketing, Philip K. Dick, PKD, propaganda, Psyops, Technocracy, unsustainability
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