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Ireland: Thoughts on Wildness and Domestication
By Renzo Connors Source: Anarchists Worldwide “If I decide to break the chains of domestication, I can only do so because I feel the chains and suffer the effects of domestication on my own skin.” – Alfredo Bonanno I While out … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Anarchism, Authoritarianism, civilization, culture, domestication, environment, Human Extinction, industrial society, nature, Philosophy, society, spirituality, Technocracy, Tenalach, wildness
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Unsouling From the Wilderness
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times “Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, education, Environment, Health, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Black Elk, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Education, Fast Food, Hyperreality, industrial society, Jorge Luis Borges, materialism, Meaning, media, modernity, nature, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, Soul, spirituality, technology, wilderness
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Just Wait a Little While
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com The trouble, of course, is that even after the Deep State (a.k.a. “The Swamp”) succeeds in quicksanding President Trump, America will be left with itself — adrift among the cypress stumps, drained of purpose, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Energy, Financial Crisis, Labor, Recession, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Debt, Deep State, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, Growth, industrial society, society, Technological Civilization, Trump
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New Era of Global Collective Psychosis
By Gilbert Mercier Source: News Junkie Post Anybody who has been unfortunate to be in a car or plane crash, but lucky enough to survive it and tell the story afterwards knows the inherent paradox: the event occurred in the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Empire, History, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Black Death, brainwashing, Collective Psychosis, corporate media, Hiroshima, industrial society, Known Wolves, Mass Murder, Nagasaki, Nuclear War, propaganda, social conditioning, Social Engineering, Systemic Collapse, terrorism, war on terror, World War 2
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I Participate
By Jonathan Bessette Source: Adbusters Recall that you’re sitting in a rapid transit vehicle, carried along the sky-line above cement highways, paved in homage to the Romans, who designed a system of militarized paths stretching everywhere, causing everything to lead … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Health, History, Labor, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Revolution, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology, Work
Tagged civilization, Conformity, Consciousness, Corporate Globalization, Corporatism, Dystopia, Economics, environment, industrial society, Information, Jacques Ellul, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, Occupy Movement, Philosophy, politics, Revolution, Science fiction, Technological Society, technology
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The Asshole Factory
Our economy doesn’t make stuff anymore. So what does it make? By Umair Haque Source: Medium My good friend Mara has not one but two graduate degrees. From fine, storied universities. Surprise, surprise: the only “job” she was able to … Continue reading
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Tagged Behavioral Science, Corporatism, industrial society, panopticon, Service Industry, Surveillance Society, Technocracy
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C-Realm Opening Speech
Words of wisdom from KMO, creator of the C-Realm podcast, reading the opening presentation for his “Manifesting In Meat Space” couch-surfing tour: http://c-realm.com/podcasts/crealm/377-manifesting-in-meat-space/ Among the topics covered: KMO’s intro to podcasting, peak oil, epochalism, technology, critical junctures, industrial society, Fight … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, culture, Economics, Energy, Podcasts, Technology
Tagged C-Realm, civilization, Consciousness, critical junctures, culture, epochalism, Fight Club, industrial society, KMO, Peak Oil, podcast, politics, Revolution, technology
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