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Tag Archives: Progress
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
By Craig Collins Source: CounterPunch As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies collapse and civilizations die. Meanwhile, a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Biodiversity, capitalism, civilization, Collapse, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, environment, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, Industrial Civilization, Invasive Species, Jared Diamond, John Michael Greer, Peak Oil, politics, Progress, society, Steven Pinker, war
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The Need for a Greater Vision: Recognizing Reality
By Jennifer Ladd Source: Resilience Question Beliefs We live in a culture that is embedded in unquestioned beliefs passing as truth. These beliefs are the source of our current crisis. We attempt to solve the problems of degradation of our … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Belief, capitalism, climate disruption, culture, Debt, Ecological Crisis, Ecology, economic instability, Economics, environment, environmental degradation, Extinction, Money, Philosophy, political tension, pollution, Progress, Reality, Resource depletion, science, spirituality, technology, Truth
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Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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Loneliness
By Yogi Prateado Source: Adbusters The Silicon Valley in which I live, a culture infused with the cocaine high of technological breakthroughs, grates against my earthly sensibilities. Riding on the crest of adrenalin, discovery, and money, what many in the fair … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Economics, Inequality, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged big data, capitalism, culture, Economics, Facebook, Google, Late Stage Capitalism, Progress, science, Silicon Valley, society, Tech Industry, technology
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OUR NEW, HAPPY LIFE? THE IDEOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT
By Charles Eisenstein Source: Waking Times In George Orwell’s 1984, there is a moment when the Party announces an “increase” in the chocolate ration – from thirty grams to twenty. No one except for the protagonist, Winston, seems to notice that … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Environment, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged 1984, Agriculture, Developing Nations, Dystopia, Economics, empathy, George Orwell, Global South, happiness, Health Care, Humanity, Literacy, Nicholas Kristof, Progress, science, Sick Care, Statistics, Stephen Pinker, technology, Third World
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Strategy and Conscience: Subverting Elite Power So We End Human Violence
By Robert J. Burrowes Given the overwhelming evidence that activist efforts are failing to halt the accelerating rush to extinction precipitated and maintained by dysfunctional human behavior, it is worth reflecting on why this is happening. Of course, you might … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, black ops, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Corporate Globalization, corporatocracy, elites, environment, Fossil Fuels, Gandhi, geopolitics, Global Elites, Helsinki, NATO, NGOs, Non-Violence, Nuclear War, Peace, Progress, Putin, Social Progress, society, Trump, Violence, war
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The Search for Meaning in Modern Life
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times Every good story about a search begins with a tale. So, here’s one; it’s a tale about a magician who gave a dinner for his neighbours. There was once a Magician who built … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Health, media, Philosophy, propaganda, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Archons, culture, empathy, Entertainment, Gnosticism, Imagination, Meaning, media, modernity, Mystery, Philosophy, Progress, society, spirituality, technology, Wetiko
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James C. Scott’s Against the Grain
By chilke Source: The HipCrime Vocab During my long discursion on the history of money, the academic James C. Scott published an important book called Against the Grain: A Deep History of the First States. Regular readers will know that this has … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Economics, History, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Against the Grain, Agriculture, civilization, Economics, Food, Government, Grains, Hunter-Gatherers, James C. Scott, Progress, society, State, Wheat
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