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Belfries

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Belfries Simplicius The systems of our control, we are led to believe, are necessary things. It is a topic I touched on in the recent article  Measures of Control .   We are taught that to question these systems is to undermine the very foundation beneath our feet. Similarly, the ‘leaders’ of our world have shaped the perception of their positions so as to bolster them with an aura of sanctity. In reality, research shows just how superfluous leaders of companies or institutions really are. “Leaders are often thought to be instrumental to the performance of the organizations they lead. However, considerable research suggests that their influence over organizational performance might actually be minimal. These claims of leader irrelevance pose a puzzle: If leaders are relatively insignificant, why would someone commit to leading?” - Source One example amongst several studies showing that the CEO of an organization is mostly a symbolic figurehead and pushes the needle much less than most

Hurricane Helene — We Are On Our Own

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  Hurricane Helene — We Are On Our Own The Abdication of Sovereignty and the Need for Folkishness Imperium Press If you prefer the audio of this article, click  here . Here at the Imperium Press Substack we’ve built a conceptual framework to dissolve liberalism and return us to more organic communities—we call it  folkishness . But once in a while it’s worth asking  why  we do this. Increasingly, the answer is given to us by the news. Right now, Hurricane Helene is battering the American Southeast—flyover country—and the people there are being starved of help. This is a vision of the future. Get used to it. When they say “our democracy” is under attack, the emphasis is “our”, as in, “not your” democracy. You are something extra, something superfluous. In an attempt to expedite the demographic replacement of its native stock, the US government has spent $1.4 billion in the past two years on migrant resettlement. As a result, FEMA is now tapped out and doesn’t have the funds to cover the