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Part of US geopolitical strategy is monopolizing universalism. Scientists, engineers, intellectuals, etc, tend to be naturally rootless, so you can poach the world's human capital...
‘Neoliberalism’ is another misleadingly neutral term, like ‘globalization’, for the self-interested policies the US was imposing on the world. Now it’s trying to impose a new set o...
I think what the Twitter Files really show is that political discourse is downstream of the regime-media interface. The character of political discourse of the last couple of decad...
The big cope with manufacturing is that it got outsourced to China because they have lax regulations. Once people try to bring manufacturing back, the reality sets in: it's hard to...
The secret to American propaganda is that everybody gets to be a propagandist. Targeting isn't used to simply deliver the right messaging to each person, targeting is used to get p...
You have this endless cycle of tax cuts, tax hikes, cutting benefits, increasing benefits, balancing the budget, etc, because the government is fake. The fake politicians need some...
Elections are propaganda events that are used by the ruling class to justify whatever changes they want to make. There were two sides, they engaged in conflict, and one side won; t...
We have a problem with pathological deference in the modern world. We defer to supposed experts and expert discourses (‘bodies of theory’) on everything and it’s crippling us.
The standard approach to government across all modern regimes is the ‘credentials and buildings’ approach, where you ’solve‘ problems with credentials and buildings: - healthcare:...
Most critiques of schooling and expertise come from an overly individualistic and positivistic perspective and hold the critique to be compatible with, or even an realization of, l...
Liberal propaganda is really just the same trick used over and over again: the manufacture of 'expert voices'. Journalists, elected representatives, etc, are generalists and are co...
In political science, 'democracy' has a more overtly epistemic meaning, where it's seen as the solution to the supposed problem that no one person could possibly know the 'public g...