The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Burying Lindsey Graham Won’t Be Easy Karen Kwiatkowski Photo by Simone Pellegrini on Unsplash Long ago, great Senators existed. Resolute and accountable, they represented their governors and state legislatures and asserted those interests in Washington. They aspired to conduct themselves as statesmen; we the people expected statesmanship. We the people also hoped they would be better than we could be, while we agreed with the fundamental truth of Colonel Ludlow in Legends of the Fall . No longer. A regal Senate with a bold populist House of Representatives do not exist. What we call Senate and House do not make federal law, nor do they perform the small number of defined duties described in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. The making of law has become the work of lobbyists and the regulatory bureaucracy, while other Constitutional duties have become entirely too frightening to even consider, much less perform. The hydra-headed executive branch has become the permanen...

  Oversocialisation Why do so many Westerners support their own destruction? Frank Wright In this brief series of posts on Phone Age Madness I talk about how to remain sane whilst viral insanity is conjured to rule us all into ruin. Today’s post is about Oversocialisation - the process by which people are programmed to fervently applaud their own destruction. CONTENTS What is “oversocialisation”? Why so many people celebrate destruction as progress How thought is mass produced and policed The threat of internal exile for dissent How not to hate yourself Why you should not destroy your personal relationships for politics Theodore Kaczynski and Erich Fromm - two takes on oversocialisation The rule by totem and taboo How to win - Staying Sane WHAT IS OVERSOCIALISATION? When people learn to adjust to others and to function in a society this is called socialisation. We also do it to puppies to train them how to behave well. Socialisation is about learning the rules of social behaviour ...