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"Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?" - Margaret Atwood Elysium Rising - Privilege, Poverty and Smart

The Wile E. Coyote Effect - Technocratic Tyranny vs. Free Speech ACME: Antisocial Corporate Media Explosion 1 It has become ludicrously transparent that many of the large corporate social media companies

"Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect." - "Yes it is. But it is politically correct." The Pathology of Political Correctness Glorification of Groupthink The origin and essence

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau The Faceless Leviathan The "Deep State" Distraction Thanks to the internet,

"Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption." - Wes Fesler The Tolling of the Bell for Tinseltown The hubris and hypocrisy on display in Hollywood has become a grotesque

An open letter to Dr. Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist: The Ultimate Argument for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Dear Paul, I am writing today in response to your opinion piece in the New York Times

"We should not underestimate the capacity of well-run propaganda systems to drive people to irrational, murderous and suicidal behavior." - Noam Chomsky Mainstreaming Madness Having recently

Humiliating displays of ignorance have become entertainment as society spirals into Idiocracy. Humor, Horror & Humiliation - Amused to Death Humiliation + Entertainment = Humilitainment The term

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" - Mark Twain Behold a Failed Horse Are Educational Standards Measurable Over Time? There are good arguments for public education. There

They've decided it's too late to make the world a better place... The Billionaire Boys Survival Club Survival of the Richest Selfish I read with some mild concern the recent contribution "Survival

The inevitable defeat of the "elite" or the end of civilization as we know it? Red-Pilled Tide Turned Black When staying asleep will no longer be an option There is a growing sense of unease

The Pulse of Europe From self-sacrifice to self-preservation I work in a field that is dominated by left-wing sentiments and a blind faith in the legitimacy of coercive political power. Reliably, every

How to Know Who Has Won the Coming(?) Revolutionary War Questions to Ask When the Dust Settles I tend towards the perspective that the western world is currently experiencing a soft revolutionary war of

Taking away your right to share information is tyranny of the worst kind. The Censorship Machine - EU Article 13 Follow this source to save the internet! "The Prime Goal of Censorship is to Promote

What would it take for you to trust the press again? The Press - A Litmus Test of Legitimacy image source What would it take to trust the press again? In the face of the rampant and systematic injustice

Terrorocracy Cometh What is this place? It is difficult to recognize the world today. Nothing is as it appeared to be half a century ago. The bastions of classical liberalism - the most important of which

Gamifying Recruitment for Waging War Call of Duty Drones As reported, the military is going to release a video game that reports to the Air Force so it can target the best players for recruitment. I can't

My Red Pill Moment A Pill in the Lion's Paw As I discussed in my post Fear of the Red Pill, the "red pill" is a metaphor for sociopolitical awakening. I have read and heard numerous accounts

The Janus-Face of the Deep State Drama source Janus, the god of beginnings and endings, of transitions, passages and portals has two faces. One looking towards the future, one towards the past. He presides

Fear of the Red Pill Genesis of the Red Pill The "red pill moment" has become a modern trope of sociopolitical awakening. Born of the now legendary scene from the film The Matrix, it refers to