A return to sanity? Sanity will not be restored for us by others. We are the ones that must restore it. We cannot wait for others to be brave on our behalf. We are here in this initiatory moment to choose who we are. The choice of whether to capitulate or to act is a declaration: Who am I to be?

Oligarchy or autocracy? There are no other alternatives. Neither are pleasant. Each has peculiar and distasteful characteristics. Each pays lip service to the fictions of democracy and constitutional rights.

Wolin wrote: “One cannot point to any national institution[s] that can accurately be described as democratic, surely not in the highly managed, money-saturated elections, the lobby-infested Congress, the imperial presidency, the class-biased judicial and penal system, or, least of all, the media.”

Taibbi and others respond to On the Media segment about the evils of so-called “free speech absolutism.”

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. explains in this recent video why we all need to stand up now and resist with civil disobedience.

The name comirnaty does not evoke any of the concepts conceived by its marketers. Anyone who can read English will see a foreign word—the name of a dead WWII Russian admiral? 

Zero-Sum, symbolized by an image of hundreds of hand paintings on rock walls. Reaching, until defaced by graffiti from a bleak future?

Those who fail in the struggle against irrelevance would constitute a new useless class. People who are useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system. And this useless class will be separated by an ever-growing gap from the ever more powerful elite.