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The Forgotten Past Will Always be Repeated
By Robert Fantina Source: CounterPunch “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” So said George Santayana. It is difficult today to look at many, many situations in the world and not see some of the worst events in history being … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged empire, Genocide, geopolitics, history, imperialism, India, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Mike Pompeo, Myanmar, racism, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United States, US Foreign Policy, venezuela
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The Varieties of Psychonautic Experience: Erik Davis’s ‘High Weirdness’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies By Erik Davis Strange Attractor Press/MIT Press, 2019 Two months ago, I devoured Erik Davis’s magisterial 2019 book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, History, media, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1970s, Consciousness, Cybernetics, drugs, Entheogens, Erik Davis, Esoterica, High Weirdness, history, Neuroscience, parapsychology, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, Psychedelics, Robert Anton Wilson, Science fiction, Shamansism, spirituality, Technocracy, Terence McKenna, the Seventies, Visionary Experience
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There Is No Normal
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com The wheel of time rolls forward, never retracing its path, but because it is a wheel, and we are riding in it, a persistent illusion persuades us that the landscape is recognizably the same, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Collapse, culture, Economic Collapse, Economics, Financial Crash, financial crisis, history, Normalcy, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, society, transition economy
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The Gulag of the Mind
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds There are no physical barriers in the Gulag of the Mind–we imprison ourselves, and love our servitude. Indeed, we fear the world outside our internalized gulag, because we’ve absorbed the narrative that the gulag … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, Economics, Energy, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Law, police state, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Energy, financial crisis, history, Justice, law, Oligarchy, police state, Social Media, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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Jacques Ellul: A Prophet for Our Tech-Saturated Times
Read his works to understand how we’ve been caught in technology’s nightmarish hold. By Andrew Nikiforuk Source: The Tyee By now you have probably read about the so-called “tech backlash.” Facebook and other social media have undermined what’s left of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, History, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Algorithms, Chamath Palihapitiya, Consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Facebook, Google, history, HyperNormalization, Internet, Jacques Ellul, Modern Civilization, Philosophy, propaganda, Silicon Valley, Social Media, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technological Progress, Technological Society, technology
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Retconning History
By CH Source: The Hipcrime Vocab “He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past.”–George Orwell “The mistake of judging the men of other periods by the morality of our own day … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, History, Labor, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged capitalism, culture, Economics, George Orwell, history, individualism, Jobs, Labor, Michael Hudson, nation-state, politics, Retconning, retroactive continuity, Revisionism, society, Work
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And So This Is Christmas
By David Swanson Source: Let’s Try Democracy Christmas Day. Very late on this day and into the morning of the 26th in 1776, George Washington led a surprise night crossing of the Delaware River and bloody pre-dawn attack on unarmed hung-over-from-Christmas … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, corporate news, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, news, society, Spirituality, State Crime, war
Tagged 1914 Christmas Truce, activism, Christianity, Christmas, corporate media, empire, history, imperialism, Jesus, Morality, Peace, Syria, war, Yemen
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