Tag Archives: neoliberalism
It’s a mean, mean world
We live in a mean world organized by sociopaths. America is run by people who are both evil and stupid, and they are acting on the associated impulses, attempting to reestablish a unipolar world dominated by the United States, and … Continue reading
Sensible Center
I’m going to miss my senator Mittens. Not because he’s a good legislator, in fact he’s terrible, but because he blurts out things our feral elite keep on the down-low. When Mittens ran for president in 2012 against Obama he … Continue reading
A clash of ideologies
Current events are what drives this blog but originally I began writing about ideologies–specifically neoliberalism and neoconservatism. The whole messianic belief in markets as a way to organize society with its insistence that there was “no alternative” made me furious. … Continue reading
The rents are too high
Why are Americans so unhappy despite elite gaslighting that it’s the best economy ever? I think the main reason is that the rents are too damn high. And by rents I don’t simply mean the costs of a mortgage or … Continue reading
What’s the plan Stan?
What is the plan for the American empire? Do our feral elite even have one or are they just winging it? There was the Wolfowitz Doctrine, that outlined a policy of unilateralism and pre-emptive military action to suppress potential threats from other … Continue reading
The Cookie Monster exits stage right
The coming defeat for the US in their proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has already claimed its first resignation. Victoria Nuland’s “retirement” is a tell that Washington’s premier foreign policy project has failed. She was on the ground micro-managing … Continue reading
How should we then live?
The Doom Blogging post got me thinking that I should write about something positive, so here goes. John Michael Greer wrote a novel, entitled Retrotopia, that imagines a possible future where faith in technology doesn’t equal prosperity. Greer, as an … Continue reading
Eye of the Beholder
Since Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 I’ve lost respect for countless liberal writers. Count Rick Perlstein among them. In a new article, entitled American Fascism, Perlstein warns of the potential for American-style fascism should Trump win another term. The … Continue reading
Doom Blogging
I have been accused of doom blogging because all I ever write about is bad news. But, in my defense, chronicling the implosion of the American empire is good news because this state of affairs has become intolerable for a … Continue reading
Weaponized
The dollar goes abroad in search of greater profits and the flag follows, trailed by human-rights and identity politics that have been weaponized to facilitate capital penetration. The US is the worlds leader in the hybrid-warfare that was developed by … Continue reading