Of Two Minds

The hope here is that facing the reality of moral collapse frees us of the delusion that fiddling with technocratic financial abstractions and policy tweaks can reverse moral collapse.

The top 10% are the dog sipping a drink as the cafe burns down, saying “this is fine.”

What renders everything phony, BS, inauthentic, is that everything important is cloaked to hide the deeply artificial nature of the entire setup.

There is no way to cut federal spending without reconfiguring the economy from the ground up, starting with healthcare.

And so we end up back in MovieLand, where we vicariously experience having powers we do not possess in real life.

The indicators of breakdown and collapse are all around us, but we don’t dare name them because then they’d become a problem we can’t bury.