The Post-Partisan Emporium

war on everything including and especially you el gato malo we live in the age of the war machine. the purpose of the war machine is not to produce victory. the purpose of the war machine is to produce war. war unending. war on everything. permission to think the unthinkable and excuse to do that which is inexcusable. it is the triumph of the terrible and the tyrannical. the war on covid, poverty, injustice, drugs, terrorism: it’s all the same. war is the worst of humanity. it is the end of cooperation, the end of rationality, the abrogation of ethics. war is permission to “do what it takes to win” this cannot be the way. war is the end of good choices and the embrace of conflict, the end of citizens and the pursuit of subjugation. it is the end of humanity and the beginning of amoral destruction of the enemy. perfect for politicians. anathema to the free breath of we the people. this is jingo as justification. it’s the supplanting of rights by righteousness. and this war machine will ...

This week it is being reported that the human population of our planet has now reached 8 billion.  We should all remember this moment, because soon the population of the globe will start getting much smaller.  In  “End Times” , I explain that we are moving into one of the most chaotic times in all of human history.  There will be wars and rumors of wars, economic collapse, worldwide famines, horrifying pestilences and great natural disasters.  Needless to say, in such a future the global population would fall very rapidly.  But for purposes of this article, let’s imagine that none of those things will happen for the foreseeable future.  For a moment, let’s imagine that conditions will be pretty much like they are today for decades to come.  Unfortunately, even in such a wildly unrealistic scenario the human population of our planet would still plummet dramatically in the years ahead.  In fact, if current trends continue there will be hardly a...