The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The War on Reality (Revisited) CJ HOPKINS Reality isn’t what it used to be. It never really was, but that’s another story. This one isn’t about reality per se. It’s about the War on Reality, the one we’re in the middle of, the war that started when the War on Terror was cancelled in the Summer of 2016. It’s actually an extension and an evolution of the War on Terror, and the War on Populism, and the rollout of the New Normal in 2020 … but that is also another story. I want to focus on the war that is raging currently, on the Internet, in people’s workplaces, homes, among friends and families, and in people’s heads. I’m pretty sure you know the war I’m talking about, regardless of which “side” you feel you are on. The War on Reality is a civil war, but it is much more than just a civil war. It is an asymmetrical, polymorphous, metastatic, multiplicitous war. An ontological free-for-all. It has no conventions or rules of engagement. There are no battle lines. The battle is everywhe...

  Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for bringing this to our attention... The Final Countdown Peak oil is coming fast, and it won't be nice THE HONEST SORCERER A WMD Geiger counter. Don’t ask me what the name implies. Energy is the economy, and this is especially true when it comes to fossil fuels — despite the fact that they are responsible for overheating this pale blue orb we call home. All the claims to the contrary, “renewables” are  nowhere near  taking over their role,  nuclear  is set on a path towards decline,  fusion  remains to be a pipe dream, while electrification in general has a  serious math problem . Like it or not, this iteration of a global civilization, not unlike its  predecessors , is based entirely on a set of finite resources and Nature’s limited ability to absorb its pollutants and keeping up with its demands… and what’s the ruling caste’s response? During the course of the last weeks and months I reviewed...