The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Do you know how controlled you are? appliance "nudging" JOSH SLOCUM Time was that machines were designed to serve human needs, and human convenience. If you are younger than 40, this essay may not make much sense to you. You’ve grown up in a world where the design and function ethos of machines is vastly different from the way machines have been conceived throughout history. You have grown up in a world in which machines have slowly, but steadily, started to govern your decisions. The machines you’re familiar with now give you orders. They schedule you. They demand that you pay attention to them on their schedule, even if only to have to move your finger to dismiss yet another “important notification” on your phone. You have grown up in a world in which designers are purposefully breaking the very functionality that you purchased the machine for. If they don’t outright break the machine, they deliberately introduce obstacles and forced interaction to compel you to have to w

  CIA Asset and US Proxy Volodymyr Zelensky Issues Problematic Pretext for Joe Biden’s ‘Nuclear Armageddon’ BY POLITICAL MOONSHINE  L et’s begin with a reminder of how things work in this world of state-sponsored and manufactured chaos and terror designed to keep the sheep afraid and herded-up. The reminder arrives in three parts: 1-the cover of major holidays is frequently used as a veil for inserting required narrative, 2-‘pretext’ that is normally in the form of mainstream media publications is established well in advance of operations to sow narrative and 3-the US has a long and sordid history of ‘false flag’ operations that serve as the impetus and rationale to engage militarily when it would otherwise be objectionable. The three points fit together in a logical sequence: establish narrative > issue pretext > execute operation > post operation reporting > point back to pretext. That’s how you execute an operation and blame it on others. It’s all a very deadly form of f

  The Intellectual Roots of Techno-Primitivism BY  JEFFREY A. TUCKER     T he assault on enterprise of the last few years – meaning not the biggest politically connected businesses but smaller ones reflecting vibrant commercial life – has taken very strange forms. Ever since the   New York Times   said   the way forward was to “go Medieval,” the elites have been attempting just that. But this medievalism has not come at the expense of Big Data, Pharma, Ag, or Media. It mainly hits products and services that impact our freedom to buy, trade, travel, associate, and otherwise manage our own lives.  What began in lockdowns mutated into a thousand forms. That continues with daily new outrages. Maybe it’s not random.  We are also still trying to figure out what happened. Consider clothing control in the form of mask mandates. It turns out that they were just getting going. FOIA requests have  revealed  emails from November 2020 in which National Institutes of Health officials discussed forci