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Tag Archives: Plato
US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse
By Pepe Escobar Source: The Unz Review Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Aristotle, Collapse, Debt Deflation, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, geopolitics, imperialism, Michael Hudson, Philosophy, Plato, The Collapse of Antiquity
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Earth’s Ultimate War: A Battle to Control the Noosphere
By Phil Butler Source: New Eastern Outlook You feel it, don’t you? There’s something deeply wrong with our world. And I don’t refer to the planet’s geosphere. I mean, there’s something deadly wrong with society overall, and the ways in … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, news, Philosophy, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Édouard Le Roy, culture, Dystopia, geopolitics, geosphere, noopolitik, Noosphere, Philosophy, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Plato, Russia, society, Technocracy, Third Way, Vladimir Putin, World Economic Forum
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WE ARE TRAPPED IN A TRUMAN SHOW DIRECTED BY PSYCHOPATHS
“Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Health, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, Allegory of the Cave, Brave New World, conditioning, corporate media, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, culture, Dystopia, elites, George Orwell, Globalists, Government, Indoctrination, Mainstream Media, Pandemic, Philosophy, Plato, propaganda, psychopaths, society, Sociology, Technocracy, The Great Reset, The Truman Show, Vaccines
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Media, Mind-Control, & Meditation: Plato’s E-Cave Panopticon and Beyond
By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) Source: Axis of Logic “Relax,” said the night man, ”We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!” – The Eagles, from “Hotel California” In Plato’s Allegory of … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Economics, Election Fraud, Empire, Environment, Film, GMOs, Hackers, hacktivism, History, media, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Adam Curtis, bernie sanders, corporate media, corporate news, DNC, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, HyperNormalization, Managed Perception, Meditation, panopticon, Philosophy, Plato, Standing Rock, surveillance state, technology, WikiLeaks
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Abandoning the Ship of Fools: Postmodernist and Wildist Responses to Civilization
By Jeriah Bowser Source: The Hampton Institute Once upon a time there was a people who lived with the Sea; living in connection, intimacy, and harmony with their aquatic environment for a very long time. Then one day a dangerous … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Environment, History, Philosophy, society, Technology
Tagged anarcho-primitivists, anti-modernists, Industrial Civilization, Leftism, Michel Foucault, Plato, Postmodernism, Progress, rewilders, Ship of Fools, technology, Theodore Adorno, Theodore Kaczynski, Unabomber, Wildism
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Coincidence, Chaos, & Archetypes in Our Science-Fictional World
By Eric Wargo Source: The Nightshirt You don’t have to be a hardheaded materialist skeptic or an atheist to be troubled by the idea of synchronicity. The fundamental mystery—or really, outrage—of synchronicities is they seem arranged, stage managed, in a … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Uncategorized
Tagged Archetypes, Jung, Philip K. Dick, PKD, Plato, Precognition, PSI, Synchronicity, Time
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