The Post-Partisan Emporium

great moments in bad messaging lesson number 2,741 in why the cure for bad people is free speech el gato malo the theme for this year’s WEF event in davos is “rebuilding trust.” so this is simply too delicious not to pass on. (and yes, i know it’s parody. but were you sure when you read it?) i mean, imagine the marketing instincts it takes for the princes of fascism to gather at the vast and opulent buffet that is davos for meal upon glorious meal to be enjoyed by the elites we’re supposed to be trusting despite so many of them having spent the last 2 years not only blowing food prices into the stratosphere, generating food insecurity among billions from africa’s poor to even the middle classes in much of the world, and telling even the rich that they need to start eating bugs, pink goo pretending to be fake meat, and lab grown protein pancakes because if we don’t, it will cause climate catastrophe? by 2030, a mere 8 years from now, the WEF tells us that meat is going to become a “spec

We’re in It Now for Sure James Howard Kunstler When I wrote  The Long Emergency  nearly twenty years ago, I never thought that, once it got going, our government would work so hard to make it worse. My theory then was just that government would become increasingly bloated, ineffectual, impotent, and uncomprehending of the forces converging to undermine our advanced techno-industrial societies. What I didn’t imagine was that government would bring such ostentatious stupidity to all that. Obviously, there was some recognition that ominous changes are coming down. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have heard so much chatter about alt energy, “sustainable growth,” “green” this-and-that. But the chatter was more symptomatic of wishful thinking for at least a couple of reasons: 1) mostly it ignored the laws of physics, despite the fact that so many people involved in enterprises such as wind and solar energy were science-and-tech mavens; and 2) there was a dumb assumption that the general shape and sca