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Convergence & Cataclysm: The Tectonic Plates of Trumpism

Clinging to politics is one way of avoiding the confrontation with the devouring logic of civilization. John Zerzan The only paradise is paradise lost. Proust In the big picture, the pandemic was probably the best thing that could have happened to Donald Trump. Had there been no Covid, he would have cruised to reelection, mainly due to the favorable conditions inherited from the Obama years. … Continue reading Convergence & Cataclysm: The Tectonic Plates of Trumpism

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Election 2024: The Aftermath

Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the old maps: it is from this new way of seeing the present that hope emerges for the future…Let us begin to imagine the worlds we would like to inhabit, the long lives we will share, and the many futures in … Continue reading Election 2024: The Aftermath

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Hard to Kill: Zombie Ideas That Need Slaying

As we come down the home stretch of the shitshow that is the 2024 Presidential election, it has become clear that our problem is not just Trump, or his legion of followers, or even the entire American political system, which has tipped over completely into plutocratic servitude. What is really crippling us is a dysfunctional set of ideas, a system of zombie ideas so entrenched … Continue reading Hard to Kill: Zombie Ideas That Need Slaying

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Doom, Joy, and Reality: On the Moods of the 2024 Election

This fight is no longer between Democrats and Republicans. This is a fight between communism and freedom. It’s very serious fight. Donald Trump, August 27th An America where we care for one another, look out for one another, and recognize that we have so much more in common than what separates us. That none of us has to fail for all of us to succeed. … Continue reading Doom, Joy, and Reality: On the Moods of the 2024 Election

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Strange Expectations: The Age of Magical Thinking Hits the Wall

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. Arthur Miller Those who are most asleep think they are most awake, being under the power of vivid and fixed visions, so that those who are most ignorant think they know most. Theodotus (2nd Century C.E.) There is, I think, a growing, deep, general awareness of a massive systems failure in our … Continue reading Strange Expectations: The Age of Magical Thinking Hits the Wall

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Reaping the Whirlwind: The Conservative Dilemma

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea 8:7 With the 2024 election looming like an autumn iceberg in the mist, many people, liberals and conservatives, are wondering: “How did we get here?” How is it that, with the world collapsing around us on multiple fronts, we’re again stuck with two doddering octogenarians, who no one really wanted, vying for … Continue reading Reaping the Whirlwind: The Conservative Dilemma

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The Problem with Bill Maher: Identity Politics as Low-Hanging Fruit

The Democrats should move on from identity politics. It’s not working. They are hemorrhaging the very voters they think they’re pandering to. Bill Maher It is somewhat customary now for liberals to criticize other liberals for being overly infatuated with identity politics. Bill Maher is typical of this sort of lecturing, recently opining, “the more you obsess over identity, the more you ignore the bread … Continue reading The Problem with Bill Maher: Identity Politics as Low-Hanging Fruit

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How Should Biden Win?

No plea to return to ‘normality’ or the ‘everyday’ is now worthwhile. Only the extraordinary can save us. Gregory Claeys The real question is: How much truth can I stand? Nietzsche The 2024 presidential race is an unusual animal, in that there are really no On-the-Fence voters this time around. A recent Quinnipiac poll had Undecideds at 1%, the same number that refused to answer, … Continue reading How Should Biden Win?

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