“Saint-Gobain sponsoring New York City’s Climate Week is a bit like a rat sponsoring city sanitation,” said one professor.
Shareholder Value Fixation of AI and Robotics: A Recipe for Failure
New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed ideology.
The Pedagogy of Power
The ruling classes always work to keep the powerless from understanding how power functions. This assault has been aided by a cultural left determined to banish “dead white male” philosophers.
Injected Narcissism
If you could describe all of this in one word, what would that word be? “Me” Yep, “me” . . . in fact, “me, me, me, me, me, me.”
Meet the New Normal, Same as the Old Normal
Individual rights and freedoms are said to undermine the wider needs of society and the planet – in a stark turnaround – personal freedom is now said to pose a threat to national security, public health or the climate.
What if There Had Been No Coup in Chile in 1973?
If there had been no coup in Chile, there might not have been coups in Peru (1975) and Argentina (1976). Without these coups, perhaps the military dictatorships in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay would have withdrawn in the face of popular agitation, inspired by Chile’s example.
They Think We Are Stupid, Volume 3
As always, this series of amazing headlines is presented without commentary. Everything you need to know about our ruling class’s opinion of you.
Do not report COVID cases & do not test yourself if you feel ill
Only non-violent resistance can halt irrational public health actors.
Next Crisis Is Anyone’s Guess, Government Is Ready to Lockdown
Every crisis since the nation’s early beginnings has become a make-work opportunity for the government.
Our Collective Trauma is the Road to Tyranny
American society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism.
Kleptocracy USA
If you want to know the true state of our government and where it’s heading, follow the money (if you can) and remain vigilant: our kleptocratic Houdinis are hard at work, seeking to make yet more money vanish from your pockets—and reappear in theirs.
Numbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace
Dostoevsky’s underground man wasn’t playing a silly game when he suggested that 2 + 2 = 5. He was saying that free will is more important than reason which just satisfies the rational side of our nature.