The End of Inevitability
I’m reminded of the words of sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” Of course, it was also noted by philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Such a statement displays the narrative wei
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When things start to go sour, when the Obama administration is exposed as a group of mortals waving a sword at a tidal wave, the United States could plunge into a long period of precarious social and political instability. At no period in American history has our democracy been in such peril or the possibility of totalitarianism as real. Our way of
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As experience has shown, the world – life itself – is cloudy, contingent and defined by change. As horrifying as the surveillance capitalists’ view of a totally controlled, perfectly articulated and error-free future might be, the inevitable failure of its vision, and the resultant violence – already evident in our fractured worldviews, competing f
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Click by click, Tac by tac we built momentum — not through wisdom or restraint, but through leveraged illusions: compounding debt, exponential extraction, artificial intelligence outpacing human ethics, social media-fed polarization, and escalating global conflict. It wasn’t progress — it was pressure. And just like the roller coaster, there comes ... See more