The Post-Partisan Emporium

So, You Wanna Be a Kingpin? Thanks to COVID, Big Pharma is on the verge of ruling the world. Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek Biggy Smalls “Never get high on your own supply.” -- Biggy Smalls You’d be surprised how many respectable millionaires and billionaires made their fortunes thanks to drug smuggling. It’s become quite convenient to blame China for every evil. But as I have pointed out in essays like  The Chinafication of the Western World ,  this is the height of hypocrisy. Western nations, the United States chief among them, pretend to care about human rights and the environment while reaping the rewards of doing business in China where the rules are laxer. If we truly believed in human rights, honest scientific research and clean energy, we would stop the lies and corruption. But we don’t believe in these things. We believe in the almighty dollar. Success means Big, Bold, and Beautiful. Success means getting rich any way you can. The only crime is getting caught. Those who do g...

Monarchism, Primitivism & Fascism? Some thoughts on anarchism and power Stone Age Herbalist As a change of pace from my usual writing I thought I’d spread my intellectual wings a bit and engage with a little niche political thought. Anarchism is one of those fringe adolescent movements which maintains itself on rebellious energy but does have some history of serious writing and theory. Like all fringe movements it has splintered into numerous, and quite dull, subsects: syndicalism, green, communism and so on, each trying to stick the appendage ‘anarcho’ onto something more outlandish. You might ask then why I’d be interested in three utterly insane sounding ideologies, two of which sound oxymoronic. I think all three represent some deep archetypes about ‘organicism’ - the interest in how societies and organisations develop naturally, rather than through imposed ideological blinkers. This to me represents a subterranean question or fault-line running through our political life, is i...