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Three Modes of Mike Benz
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.
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Loss of the Medical Mezoi and Medical Citizenship
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
Dissent: Gaps in the Regime
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.
Trump’s 19th-Century Solution to Fiscal Disaster
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
History Rhymes: Freedom from Fear
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.”
Is the Influenza Threat Exaggerated?
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.
The Global Assault on Religious Freedom
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
The White Woman’s Burden
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 Is Coming Apart
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
They Have the Money, We Have the Numbers
For better or worse, authoritarianism has happened many times in history — it’s kind of the human default. The original state.
They Have the Money, We Have the Numbers Read Journal Article
Save Furniture, Save the Past
A recent unnerving development is the disappearance of web pages. If history can be erased, it can be denied. Which puts us into a ‘save the furniture’ mindset – how can we preserve important kernels of truth for our children?
Considerations on Civil Disobedience
In the United States this need to face the possibility that one will have to act decisively, has not been as urgent since ‘the Revolution of ’75.’ The enemy today is not outside the gates; it is inside the gates.