The Post-Partisan Emporium

Consumerism versus life The choice is yours Frank Wright In one generation we have progressed from a state of aimless stability with a broad expectation that society would coast into more of the same, to a vertiginous chaos of social decline. If we are honest, we no longer expect to see the standards of living rise in any meaningful way. It is enough to hope we can hold on to what we have. Is there any way to calculate the success of a society in a bureaucratic model? We are usually treated to quarterly forecasts of GDP, which have taken a back seat recently to soaring inflation. The interest rate is always of interest, since so many of us, like our governments, live on debt. We pay the monthly interest on the credit cards and mortgages and hire purchase agreements we have. This is called ‘servicing’ our debts, and is perhaps how our ‘service economy’ is understood. In place of rising aspirations, comfortable and unchallenged freedoms, stable communities and a human scale society we ha...

How to Control Your Soul’s Desire for Freedom The Corbett Report by James Corbett Thank you, comrade! Thank you for doing what's right. Thank you for doing what you know you should do. Thank you for doing what we  tell  you to do. After all, we couldn't defeat the deadly and  oh-so-real  threat of the vile Omicron scariant without your dutiful compliance. However, it has come to our attention that not everyone is as obedient as you are. There are traitors in our midst, insurrectionists who would question the soundness of the Politburo's  diktats . These meddling miscreants, we have come to find out, are spreading malicious mendacities and salacious slander about our cherished  zero-COVID policy  and—worse yet—they even say that our actions are part of a global agenda to bring in a system of (technocratic) biosecurity governance! I know, I know, it's hard to believe that anyone would dare impugn the motives of our wise rulers, but it is happening noneth...

Nausea Rules James Howard Kunstler The way financial markets puked this week, they must have started reading the news. Let’s face it, the headlines are a little short of reassuring. The $6.49 price on a gallon of diesel is enough alone to tell you that the nation can’t do business the way it’s set up to do, and there isn’t a new model for running things ready to launch — not even Klaus Schwab’s utopia of robots and eunuchs. What’s  out there , rather, is a model of breakdown and collapse which the Woked-up, globalist neo-Jacobins are doing everything possible to hasten. US-inspired sanctions on Russia have quickly blown-up in America’s face. How’s that ban on Russian oil working? Do you understand that US shale oil — the bulk of our production — is exceptionally light in composition, meaning it contains not much of the heavier distillates like diesel and aviation fuel?  ‘Tis so, alas. Truckers just won’t truck at $6.49-a-gallon, and before long they’ll be out of business altog...