The Post-Partisan Emporium

 Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this essay... Who’s Winning? By FABIO VIGHI ‘The West has become a totalitarian space – the space of a self-defensive hegemony defending itself against its own weakness.’ (Jean Baudrillard) One of the most frequently referenced scenes in Arthur Penn’s  Night Moves  (1973) features a despondent Gene Hackman slumped in front of a small black-and-white television, half-heartedly watching a game of American football. When his wife walks in and asks, “Who’s winning?”, he mutters: “Nobody. One side’s just losing slower than the other.” As consciously depressing Hollywood films like  Night Moves  foresaw, the crisis of the 1970s was already signalling the end of capitalist socialisation: a structural and soon-to-be global socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological debacle that is now entering its phase of rapid escalation (though Hollywood this time is in full denial). As it’s becoming increasingly clear, the s...

  Face To Fasces Evil-doers do evil Radio Far Side "Destiny’s powerful hand has made the bed of my future, and it’s up to me to lie in it. I am destined to be a superhero, to right wrongs, and pound two-fisted justice into the hearts of evil-doers everywhere. You don’t fight destiny. No sir! And you don’t eat crackers in the bed of your future, or you get all… scratchy. Hey, I’m narrating here!" —  The Tick , 1994 As a freelance writer and editor, I work on a lot of high-level international documents. Though they are freely available on the interwebs, very few of us actual humans ever read them, and with good reason. If I didn’t get paid to do it, I would rather pull my own teeth with tweezers. These reports, roadmaps, frameworks, and studies clearly lay out the machinery of global governance. They go into excruciating detail on the legal and regulatory foundations for how governments blend with NGOs, blend with financial institutions, blend with “stakeholders” (how I detest ...

Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this article from Ramin Mazaheri.  This is the last in a series.  You can find the previous articles through the following links... The Ukrainian suicide: Reading Emmanuel Todd’s French-only 'The Defeat of the West' Eastern Europe’s pro-West shift is ‘inauthentic’ - Emmanuel Todd’s ‘The Defeat of the West’ Emmanuel Todd asks ‘What is the West?’ Protestants and professors won't like his answer The ‘EU-icide’: Emmanuel Todd asks if it’s suicide or homicide? Emmanuel Todd on the UK’s Russophobia: a crumbling nation needs a scapegoat Emmanuel Todd beats Democrats by 6 months: The US is an oligarchy ‘The Defeat of the West’ necessarily includes done and dusted failures in the US Emmanuel Todd has hard, obvious truths for why the US is leading Ukraine to ruin Ramin Mazaheri (This is the 7th part in a multipart series on Emmanuel Todd’s political it-book of the moment  The Defeat of the West (La Defaite de l’Occ...