Of Two Minds

What they don’t understand is inequality is America’s Monster Id: the more you try to suppress it, the more powerful it becomes.The word privilege is much bandied about now. I’ve been writing about privilege for many years, and ended up …

As businesses, agencies and organizations recalibrate to the reality that the V-shaped recovery was nothing but a brief fantasy, 6 million additional jobs lost may be a best-case scenario rather than the worst-case scenario.It is somewhat less than rea…

The cognitive dissonance required to ignore the widening gap between the real economy and the fraud’s basic machinery–speculation funded by “money” conjured out of thin air–has reached a level of denial that can only be termed psychotic.When scams st…

The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed.Though under pressure from climate change, the dinosaurs were still dominant 65 million year ago–until the meteor struck, creating …

As with the French Revolution, that will be the trigger for a wholesale replacement of our failed institutions.Since it’s Bastille Day, a national holiday in France celebrating the French Revolution, let’s ask a question few even think (or dare) t…

You better bow low and pay up, peasant, or your voice in the digital world will disappear just as quickly as your democracy’s control over Big Tech.Who’s the junior partner in global hegemony, Big Tech or the U.S. government? The question would ha…