The US Economy in a Nutshell: A Few Winners, Everyone Else Loses Ground
Here’s the US economy in a nutshell: corporate/state concentrations of financial, market and political power are the winners, and everyone outside these fortresses is…
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Why the Next Recession Will Be the Catalyst for Depression
Narrative control works by having a pat answer for every skepticism and every doubt. Boiled down, the dominant narrative holds that the Federal Reserve…
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The Fatal Limits of the Technocrat Class
This guest essay by longtime correspondent 0bserver speaks to a dynamic woven into all of my work: the intrinsic impossibility of fixing what technocratic…
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What We Find So Difficult to Admit
What we find so difficult to admit is that our quality of life isn’t getting better and life is not getting easier. When presented…
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The Epic Struggle Just Ahead
Today I conclude this week’s exploration of narrative control as the core mechanism of social, political and economic control. In Narrative Control Made Easy:…
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Lessons from China’s Cultural Revolution
China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) is interesting on multiple levels. The conventional narrative holds that it was the result of a power struggle between Mao…
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Narrative Control Made Easy: Us versus Them
The name of the game in controlling the populace is narrative control, the current term for setting the context, priorities and agenda so the…
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The Reckoning Few See Coming
I highly recommend reading my colleague Simon Pearce’s succinct yet comprehensive explanation of historian Peter Turchin’s key driver of historical cycles, Elite Overproduction: Democracy’s…
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Why Is Everything Such a Hot Mess?
Why Is Everything Such a Hot Mess? Let’s summarize the consensus views. 1. Sociopaths are in charge. There are two options: A) the sociopaths…
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Why the World Is Crazy
The world is crazy because the gap between the pat solutions we embrace and the scale of resources required to manifest those solutions is…