The Oligarchical Order: A Bonus Audio From A Collapsing State
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The Oligarchical Order: A Bonus Audio From A Collapsing State
Let's begin our search for an integrated understanding with a look at how over-reach, windfall exploitation and the divergence of Elite/State and middle-class interests illuminate the disintegration of post-World War II America into the present Depression.
Charles Hugh Smith • Survival+ The Primer
liberalism will collapse. What new religions or ideologies might fill the resulting vacuum and guide the subsequent evolution of our godlike descendants?
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
It would be naïve to assume that any liberal democracy (or any society) can long survive with all of its conceptual foundations gutted. Either it will collapse into civil conflict, or those foundations will be replaced brick by brick by the New Faith, until it is transformed into an unrecognizable edifice that is neither liberal nor democratic. Now... See more
N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval
But our collapse is more than an economic and political collapse. It is a crisis of faith. The capitalist ideology of unlimited growth has failed. It did not take into account the massive depletion of the world’s resources, from fossil fuels to clean water to fish stocks to soil erosion, as well as overpopulation, global warming, and climate change
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
By manufacturing a never-ending stream of crises, a corrupt oligarchy can prolong its rule indefinitely.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The postindustrial era has concentrated political and economic power in just a few hands and denied ordinary people control of their own lives. Overwhelmed by unfathomably large forces, Americans can no longer think and act as fellow citizens. We look for answers in private panaceas, fixed ideas, group identities, dreams of the future and the past,
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