The Post-Partisan Emporium

 The first article can be found here ... The Secret of the Sages John Michael Greer Two weeks ago we talked about the way that life throughout the modern industrial world has fallen into the grip of lenocracy—that is, a system in which pimping of one kind or another is the most common feature of economic life, or in less idiosyncratic language, a system in which every economic exchange is exploited by interests that contribute nothing to the transaction but must be paid off before the transaction can take place.  Lenocracy is a feature of all complex human societies, for much the same reason that every animal species has parasites:  whenever freeloading on someone else’s labor and resources instead of doing the work yourself is an option, someone or something will be found to fill that niche. A handful of bloodsucking leeches. I’ll let you figure out why I’ve included this picture. Yet societies vary in the amount of lenocracy they tolerate. In particular, when markets are relatively f

  But It's A Benign Dictatorship The Trial of Robocop RADIO FAR SIDE One of my favorite films of all time is  Paul Verhoeven’s  Robocop . It is probably the second greatest dramatization of Fascism ever put to celluloid, surpassed only by the unbounded genius of Orson Wells and  Franz Kafka  teamed up on  The Trial . The latter is more cerebral and depressing, following the tribulations of a man consumed by a cold and lifeless system (hint: humanity loses), while the former is a prophetic satirical romp through modern globalist society (hint: transhumanity wins). If you have any doubts whether you live in a Fascist utopia or a Socialist one, watch  Robocop  and compare it to your immediate environment. Most likely, you live in a Fascist utopia, with a thin veneer of Socialism to make it appear to have a heart and soul. Thanks to nearly a century of unrelenting propaganda, most people think Fascism was defeated in 1945, making the world safe for Socialism.  Au contraire, mon ami.  I