When the history of our time is written, this period will be a case study for students of global corruption, classical tragedies, and mass psychosis, and we’ll be used as an example of what humans must never do again.
Our Last Innocent Moment Is Our First Step Forward Read Journal Article
Understanding these mechanisms isn’t cause for despair – it’s a source of empowerment. Just as the Prussian system required belief to function, today’s control systems rely on our unconscious participation. By becoming conscious of these mechanisms, we break their power.
In 2024, Trump won all seven battleground states by an average of just over 2%, and his overall popular vote percentage will be approximately 10% lower than Nixon. Nixon’s margin of victory was an order of magnitude greater than Trump’s.
Nixon Versus McGovern 2.0? Not so Fast! Read Journal Article
Benz is from the Blob and teaches about the Blob, as well as the whole alliance, stateside and transnationally, that the Blob is at the center of. He will be a main source of insight in the coming months.
The Medical Mezoi evaporated almost overnight. Hospital staff were no longer independent. There were two classes of physicians: the few members of the elite nobility who were part of the networks and the serfs who did what they were told.
Loss of the Medical Mezoi and Medical Citizenship Read Journal Article
It is true that dissent need not appear in publicly conspicuous ways; it manifests itself in households, virtually on a daily basis, for instance where subordinated women engage in dissent regarding the oppression or abuse they experience.
Notwithstanding its shortcomings, a revenue tariff is a start in the right direction. Trump’s bold stance in favor of taxing consumption rather than income and requiring all households to bear the cost of government is superior to the status quo.
Trump’s 19th-Century Solution to Fiscal Disaster Read Journal Article
Why not offer voters “freedom from the Constitution?” “Freedom from fear” means security via mass delusions about the nature of political power. Perhaps our ruling class should replace the Bill of Rights: “Political buncombe will make you free.”
Influenza is rare, loads more agents causing the same signs and symptoms are lumped under the appalling term “flu”, and population interventions such as inactivated vaccines do not stand a chance against a relatively rare moving target like influenza.
Christianity threatens the regime because it demands faith in something greater than the state. The assault on religion is not collateral damage in the war against free expression; suppressing worship is fundamental to the cause of tyranny.
The Global Assault on Religious Freedom Read Journal Article
Those assuming the White Woman’s Burden believe that there is a moral elect embedded in almost every population whose job it is to liberate the majority from their weaknesses and superstitions through instruction, and if need be, loving coercion.
The neo-liberal consensus built in the postwar period contained the seeds of its own destruction. It was too dependent on the creation of institutions beyond people’s control and too reliant on elite mastery of events.
The Neo-Liberal Consensus Is Coming Apart Read Journal Article
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