Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
The People Have Lost Faith in the State, and the State Has Lost Faith in its People
This is how states and empires decay and slide into the dustbin of history. Democracy is fundamentally about advocacy: the people are free to advocate for their interests and form groups to represent their shared interests. In the broadest scope, the people are free to advocate for what they hold as the common good, policies and programs that benefit the entire populace rather than one special-interest group.
Is systems change inevitable?
In yesterday’s issue we looked at the twenty year projections prepared by the US intelligence community for the incoming Biden administration. In particular highlighting the political nature of these trend reports, that they also act as road maps to desired futures.
The Only Way to Get Ahead Now Is Crazy-Risky Speculation
It’s all so pathetic, isn’t it? The only way left to get ahead in America is to leverage up the riskiest gambles. It’s painfully obvious that the only way left to get ahead in America is crazy-risky speculation, but nobody seems to even notice this stark and stunning reality.
#AxisOfEasy 192: Another Supply Chain Breach: Codecov Hacked – Damage Unknown
Facebook’s ad system lets companies spin both directions,
Big Tech’s fingerprints all over new privacy laws in US,
Amazon is trying to strongarm Ecobee into sharing user data ..this and more in this week’s Axis of Easy #192
“What do we do about these fucking idiots?”
This past weekend the province of Ontario entered a crisis that combined an escalating pandemic with an increasingly fed up public. Fed up, not just with the pandemic, but the utter incompetence of our leadership.
America’s Fatal Synergies
America’s financial system and state are themselves the problems, yet neither system is capable of recognizing this or unwinding their fatal synergies. why do some systems/states emerge from crises stronger while similar systems/states collapse?
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