The Post-Partisan Emporium

Atomization Variant Declaring independence from diseased systems. Good Citizen 2029: The last January 6th, 2021 Capitol velvet rope tourist. Every epoch has its advertising campaigns for the declared advancements in civilizational progress, usually crafted around technologies that proclaim to liberate humans from their own deficiencies and inadequate dispositions. New offerings promise to nurse increasingly obscure imperfections, amplified and exaggerated beyond reason for successful advertising campaigns. Each one is often a new ball and chain convincingly sold under the label of “saving time” through efficiency and expedience or as a source of safety and security from imagined threats, too often manufactured by those in power who have prepared in advance the recommended solution. There is no public custom, social performance, digital application, novel technology, or mass surveillance gadget today with a utility that can’t be fabricated around an equally fabricated public campaign, u...

Thanks to James for bringing this article to my attention. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PATRICK LAWRENCE: Power September 6, 2021 Save Patrick Lawrence asks some pertinent questions of the American people. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium New s A re Americans going to sit around indefinitely eating potato chips while the State Department and Treasury starve Venezuelan children?  Are Americans going to play video games while Israel fires U.S.–made missiles into Damascus from Lebanese airspace—two violations of international law? Are Americans going to sit around watching corporate sports while the Pentagon drone-murders entire families and Congress votes to increase its post–Afghanistan budget? Are Americans going to sit on their sofas while the United States condemns several generations of Cubans to lives of desperation because they have chosen to live in a socialist republic? Yemeni children play in the rubbl...