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Tag Archives: politics
Neoliberal Defenestration and the Overton Window
By Stephen Martin Source: CounterPunch ‘It is difficult to get Artificial Intelligence to understand something, when the Research and Development funding it depends upon its not understanding it’– Paraphrase of Upton Sinclair. defenestration (diːˌfɛnɪˈstreɪʃən) n the act of throwing a person or thing out … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Labor, Militarization, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Biodiversity, Corporatism, Economics, empire, Free Market, Hegemony, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Overton Window, panopticon, Philosophy, politics, Robotics, Utilitarianism
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Disarming the Weapons of Mass Distraction
By Madeleine Bunting Source: Rise Up Times “Are you paying attention?” The phrase still resonates with a particular sharpness in my mind. It takes me straight back to my boarding school, aged thirteen, when my eyes would drift out the … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Health, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Attention, big data, Consciousness, culture, Herbert Marcuse, media, Meditation, Mind, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Philosophy, politics, psychology, Smart Phones, Social Media, society, Sociology, technology, Timothy Leary
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American Public Troubled by ‘Deep State’
By John V. Walsh Source: ConsortiumNews.com “Public Troubled by Deep State” is the headline that the Monmouth University Polling Institute tags to its recent poll. Acknowledging that polling about the term “Deep State” is problematic because “few Americans (13%) are … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, media, Media Literacy, police state, propaganda, society, Sociology, surveillance state, war
Tagged conspiracy, corporate media, Deep Media, Deep State, fascism, Mainstream Media, politics, Power, Public Trust, surveillance state, U.S. Wars, US government, Washington DC
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8 Signs of a Mind Infected by Political Malware
By Jordan Bates Source: High Existence Your mind is similar to a computer. Your brain is the hardware, your worldview the software. The operating system you’re running is heavily influenced by your culture, upbringing, education, and many other factors. Arguably, a well-functioning mind is … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Arguments, Belief, Conformity, Consciousness, Dogma, Education, Faith, Fundamentalism, Group Mind, Hive Mind, Knowledge, Malware, Mind, Philosophy, Polarization, Political Malware, politics, psychology, Tribalism, Wisdom
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Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
(Editor’s note: on this 36th anniversary of the passing of Philip K. Dick, it seems an appropriate time to note the relevance of his work to our current dystopia as Henry Farrell does in the following essay. Unfortunately the author … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, consciousness, Conspiracy, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Empire, Hackers, media, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Algorithms, automation, big data, Consciousness, Dystopia, Fake News, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, PKD, politics, propaganda, Reality, sci-fi, Science fiction, Social Media, Sociology, technology
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Thought Police for the 21st Century
By Chris Hedges Source: TruthDig The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites, along with demonizing as foreign agents the journalists … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Alternet, bernie sanders, censorship, Consortium News, counterspeech, David North, Detroit, eric schmidt, Facebook, Global Research, Google, Government, Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange, media, Money, monika bickert, Newspeak, politics, propaganda, Psy-ops, ramzan kadyrov, senate committee on commerce, Social Media, trotskyism, Truthdig, Twitter, USA, WikiLeaks, World Socialist Web Site, youtube
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The Nunes Memo Only Partially “Vindicates” Trump, But it Fully Indicts the FBI and the FISA Court
By Thomas L. Knapp Source: The Fifth Column On February 2, US president Donald Trump approved public release of a memo from the US House Intelligence Committee concerning FBI malfeasance in its applications for warrants to surveil Carter Page, a … Continue reading
The Cost of Resistance
By Chris Hedges Source: TruthDig Resistance entails suffering. It requires self-sacrifice. It accepts that we may be destroyed. It is not rational. It is not about the pursuit of happiness. It is about the pursuit of freedom. Resistance accepts … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Authoritarianism, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Empire, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, society, Spirituality, State Crime
Tagged activism, Art, corporatocracy, Courage, culture, empire, Freedom, happiness, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Plutocracy, politics, resistance, Sacrifice, society
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