Category: Society

Despite all the troubles which have beset us in this foul year of our Lord 2021, there has also been an undercurrent of extremely positive vibrations. A sparkling, silvery edge to the dark storm clouds which are rapidly moving in. Despite politicians and journalists who constantly sow fear, hatred, and division between the races and along party lines, there’s a resistance growing – one which seeks to heal this polarization, and identify the ideological culprits who are behind it all. In this essay I plan to explore how the Left and Right fell apart from one another – and how...

Politics is dead. Politics is no longer about politics, it is about identity. Late-stage Capitalism has taken it over and commodified it. Politics is a product, a performative, consumptive act; an act of identity affirmation. It’s no different than shopping at Hot Topic, and I highly recommend that you divest yourself of both. Let’s consider what exactly is going on here; afterwards you can yell, “Jane! Get me off this crazy thing!” Begin with the Hegelian dialectic. Since this is the Current Year, it’s going to be a particularly stupid dialectic. So let’s look around for an argument that’s both...

I often write about the mass psychological manipulation within media culture; the manufactured “Consensus Reality” which is programmed into the populace through various media organs. It’s a constant struggle between those who want a good, honest, and fair world versus those who use mendacious rhetoric for the sake of their own profit and aggrandizement. We saw this with 9/11 – the inflation of Osama Bin Laden into an existential threat (rather than a disgruntled CIA asset) so that Bush could eviscerate the constitution, and launch a war against Iraq (despite that country having no connection to the group in question)....

When you go off the reservation of Fox/CNN thought, it’s crucial that you maintain a high standard of intellectual integrity; otherwise you fall into conspiracy theory territory, making a fool out of anyone who questions the corporate media’s narrative.

Note: this is a guest post by a good friend of mine, Jules Vasquez, a non-binary member of the LGBTQ community. It should go without saying (but just in case some of the light-switch brains are reading this) we don’t agree upon everything; but one thing we do agree upon is that we don’t like our corporate overlords, and we want to see more organic communities and small businesses out there. Even if this subject matter doesn’t seem to interest my regular audience, I believe you might just get something out of it. Leo The community will fight me over...