The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The rising rule of idiocracy in the West Erosion of leadership quality is systemic and pervasive. ALEX KRAINER One facet of the Roman Empire’s decline, as they taught us in school, was the decaying quality of its leadership, including weak and inept emperors at the top of the political hierarchy. Today we can appreciate that this deterioration was the result of a systemic process that promoted and empowered those who were loyal to the ruling establishment's agendas and purged those who dissented, often violently. Today also, the ruling establishments across western liberal democracies have important plans. These plans are in fact so important, that they must be implemented whether or not they make sense or not. Zealotry over competence To climb the ladders within the corporate and bureaucratic hierarchies charged with these important plans, individuals must show a certain zeal and loyalty over and above their ability or competence. Individuals who believe in things like vaccines,...

Waiting For The Fall John Michael Greer It’s been a busy couple of weeks, hasn’t it? A Pfizer executive admitted under oath that all those claims that the Covid vaccine would protect you from catching Covid had no data at all backing them.  Inevitably, corporate media flacks are now insisting at the top of their lungs, in the teeth of ample evidence, that nobody ever made the claims in question. Ukrainian agents used a truck bomb to damage the bridge that links Crimea to Russia; Russia, which has supposedly been running out of missiles since about a week since their forces invaded Ukraine, responded by sending a flurry of the missiles they aren’t supposed to have any more to blow up another round of Ukrainian targets, focusing on the energy and transport facilities the Ukrainians are going to need to face the massive winter offensive Russia is all too clearly preparing. The Ministry of Truth insists this never happened. In other news, Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Th...