The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Futurus Interruptus John Michael Greer Most of the time, in writing these essays, I try to treat the decline of industrial society with the seriousness that it deserves. Sometimes, though, the plain raw absurdity of our current situation rises to a point that only raucous laughter can address. I ran into another of those points a few days back, while reading an article on Yahoo News sent to me by a longtime reader and commenter—tip of the hat to David By The Lake. The article is by Hasan Chowdhury, and its title is “Humanity is on the brink of major scientific breakthroughs, but nobody seems to care.” You can read it  here . Chowdhury’s article points out that recent news stories about the latest heavily promoted claims of a breakthrough in nuclear fusion research, and the much-hyped announcement by two South Korean researchers that a room-temperature superconductor had been discovered, didn’t get the response the media expected.  By and large, people yawned. To Chowdhu...

  Toxic Entities An infection is sweeping the globe as you read this RADIO FAR SIDE The Paper Golem If you’ve read my book,  Paper Golem: Corporate Personhood & the Legal Fiction , then you are already aware of today’s topic, and you have more than 100 footnotes and 50 citations for further research. If you haven’t read it, you are unaware of the means by which our world is being transformed, while protecting the perpetrators. With the shameless plug out of the way, let’s dive in. I am of the opinion that corporations are the most insidious and pervasive societal ills we face right now. My book explores the origins and evolution of corporate persons, from ancient Sumer to the upcoming off-world entities. They are the product and embodiment of fascism, and they don’t care a whit about us. Corporations are soulless immortal beings of our own creation that are eating the life out of our civilization and our species. They have infiltrated and infected every aspect of our lives...