Of Two Minds

Those who don’t see the fragmentation, the scarcities and the battlelines being drawn will be surprised by the acceleration of the unraveling.

 This is why inflation will rip everyone’s faces off: production will continue to stagnate no matter how many trillions the Federal Reserve prints and throws around.This is how market capitalism is supposed to work: consumers decide…

The banquet of consequences for the Fed, the elites and their armies of parasitic flunkies and factotums is being laid out, and there won’t be much choice in the seating.Words can be debased just like currencies. Take the word sacrifice. The&…

Why do we tolerate such a corrupt, undemocratic, exploitive, elite-dominated system? Because we have no other choice? No, we do have a choice.Isn’t it obvious that we need an alternative economic system that isn’t controlled by corporations, the govern…

When the money runs out or loses its purchasing power, all sorts of complexity that were previously viewed as essential crumble to dust.Four D’s will define 2020-2025: derealization, denormalization, decomplexification and decoherence. That’s a lo…

The “system” known as a city, now bloated and overgrown by decades of mal-investment, will be forced to become self-supporting.So let’s look at the urban exodus that’s exciting so much commentary. Two essays pin each end of the urba…