All over the West, governments are destroying their own values in a coordinated fashion in what they claim is “protecting democracy”. You can’t protect anything by destroying it — by turning the world into an ...
In the files of “if you can believe it,” this literally just happened and no — even though by all accounts it should be and it sounds like it — sadly, this isn’t satire. If ...
Some people accept uncritically the reality with which they’ve been presented, despite overwhelming evidence that reality has been scripted and programmed — and the programmed people running that code have done unconscionable things to others ...
It is so important for people to understand this. Liberty is not possible in an omnipresent surveillance panopticon because part of being at liberty is having one’s privacy secure. Our Fourth Amendment to the Bill ...
This one question at RFK Jr.’s Senate confirmation hearing will tell you everything you need to know about why everything is so broken in this country and why nothing ever changes. This system is such ...
Mel here. Last week was insane. This year feels insane. Last year was the kind of insane you couldn’t describe to someone who lived through it without them thinking you were insane. Sometimes I wonder ...
The upside of censorship? Unlimited optimism about our perfected future, where the best traits are gradually conditioned into all the shiny, happy people holding hands, and the misfits are quietly repressed into oblivion. The downside? ...
Widespread loss of faith/trust in the going system typically occurs before a new system emerges. It starts with a consciousness shift that disconnects people from the beliefs that held them within the old system. We’ve ...
The world is a stage, this we know. Currently, the production is a farce. What was funny 50 years ago no longer can be considered so. Speech interceded by absurd Keystone cops in England: The ...
As the media sweeps it out to make room for the next new current thing, I believe it’d be a mistake to pretend like we all just didn’t witness the mass public reaction to what ...