How Predatory Capitalism Left Americans Without Capital — Poor, Broke, and Desperate America presents us with something new, gruesome, and weird in modern history: the phenomenon of a new kind of poverty. And all the problems it brings with it: despair, suicide, violence, superstition, ignorance, hatred, extremism. Yet what does “a new kind of…
Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Inequality, and Stagnation All Fuel Fascism. But Those Define This Century. Now What? There’s a difficult and uncompromising question that I think needs to be asked at right about this juncture in human history. Given the resurgence of global nationalism, extremism, fascism — America, Germany, Poland, Hungary…
The Hidden Thread Running Through a Troubled Age I’m going to say something pretentious and ridiculous, and you can decide if it’s something worth hearing. We need to decide what kind of people we want to be. I mean that on levels both big and small. What kind of species we want to be. What … Read more
Capitalism’s Original Myth, and How America Proves It’s False There’s a simple argument that American thinking has long made when it comes to capitalism. It goes like this. Capitalism brings many ills with it, sure. It makes people immoral, foolish, vain, short-sighted, selfish. It leads to strife and division and…
Why Economic Indicators Don’t Tell the Sad and Shocking Story of America’s Descent into Mass Poverty, Hunger, Misery, and Despair Here’s a tiny fact.40% of Americans struggle to afford food at this point. Wow. It’s the kind of statistic that’s…
Why Is American Culture So Trivial and Superficial When There Are So Many Epic Problems to Solve? You might be forgiven for lookingat these picturesfrom the Met Gala, that annual gathering of the America’s rich and famous, and wondering to yourself: “has America gone off the deep end?” Here’s what occurred to me…
Why Americans are (Even) More Stressed Out Than Venezuelans, or Why Happiness and Capitalism are Incompatible Here’s a fact that might shock and alarm you. People inVenezuela and Iraq feel less stressed than Americans.Venezuela — you know, the poster child of social collapse, and, war-torn…
Six Ways America’s Collapse is Eerily Like the Soviet Union’s Last Days. If I was to tell you there was a society in which longevity, real incomes, savings — not to mention, happiness, meaning, trust, and democracy itself — were all shrinking at record pace, what would you say? I’d say it was collapsing — … Read more
How Come When The Prez Says “Animals”, No One Uses the Word “Fascism”? I was greeted this morning by the spectacle of a President calling refugees and immigrants “animals” on Twitter. But that wasn’t the truly disgraceful thing. I scrolled through my Twitter feed, hoping. Would this be the day…
Why the West is Drowning in a Tidal Wave of Ignorance, Demagoguery, and Self-Inflicted Catastrophe When we look at the spectacular, astonishing, bizarre state of affairs that Anglo countries — meaning the US and UK are in — it’s hard not to see a truth emerge. Large segments of these societies have become imbeciles. I … Read more
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