The Post-Partisan Emporium

  A Game of Musical Chairs John Michael Greer Some turning points in history are impossible to miss. They involve battle-cries and the clash of weapons, gatherings making decisions that can never be undone, and equally obvious events. Then there are the turning points that slip past unnoticed by most of the people whose lives they will overturn. I’ve come to think that one of those latter is taking place around us right now. One of the very few announcements I’ve seen so far didn’t involve bugles or proclamations.    It appeared in a news story covered in a few corners of the tech industry press last month. The story’s simple enough.  Ryan Breslow, founder and returning CEO of hotshot financial-tech company Bolt, laid off the company’s entire human resources department and replaced it with a smaller and more focused team with much more limited responsibilities. His explanation for the change? “We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems that didn’t exist,” he was quo...

  The Truth Unvarnished Peeling away centuries of patina Radio Far Side The American Society of Theatrical Religious Spectacle (ASTRS Inc.) has for decades been well paid to promote an absurdity commonly called “Israel,” with the official name of Zion Inc. Banking on the profound ignorance of the general population and their lack of motivation to actually study history, Zion Inc. has convinced millions that it has exclusive rights to a strip of desert formally known since AD137 as Palestine. The greatest of the myriad absurdities is the idea that YHWH is the Christian god. A quick reading of John 8:44 should put that to rest, but ASTRS Inc. assiduously avoids focusing on inconvenient passages in their sacred texts, in order to sell a fairy tale of critical military and geopolitical importance. The second greatest absurdity peddled by Zion Inc. is the idea that “Israel” is the homeland of the “Jews”. Again, actually reading the four canonical Gospels should dispel that illusion, but...