Category Archives: How the World Really Works

Who’s Actually in Power in the Empire

Posted on December 1, 2023 by Dave Pollard

This map, from Multipolarista, shows how ‘western’ countries, in repeated UN votes last month, have consistently refused to condemn sanctions as human rights violations, opposed the principle of a democratic and equitable world order, opposed the promotion of human rights … Continue reading →

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Hard to Be Compassionate Sometimes

Posted on November 22, 2023 by Dave Pollard

a mosaic watercolour portrait of David Foster Wallace, by Midjourney AI; not my prompt I‘ve argued endlessly that we are simply the products of our biological and cultural conditioning, given the circumstances of the moment, and that hence we’re all … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: November 2023

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Dave Pollard

Fridge magnet by cedarmountainstudios.com, from Salt Spring Island BC Why do we build the wall, my children, my children? Why do we build the wall? We build the wall to keep us free. That’s why we build the wall. We … Continue reading →

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The Entanglement Hypothesis Revisited

Posted on November 11, 2023 by Dave Pollard

image adapted from Pixabay, CC0 “I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are … Continue reading →

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Sarapocial Relationships

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Dave Pollard

Cartoon from the New Yorker by the late, great Lee Lorenz A parasocial relationship is that between an individual and some fictional character or some real or idealized group — an entity you can never really know. So I might … Continue reading →

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Third Try at Guessing How the 2024 US Election Will Unfold

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Dave Pollard

the Tweedles, reimagined as famous comic characters, by Midjourney AI — “‘I know what you’re thinking about,’ said Tweedledum; ‘but it isn’t so, nohow. ‘ ‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, … Continue reading →

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The Sad State of “The Media”

Posted on November 4, 2023 by Dave Pollard

from the memebrary, original source unknown The term media originally referred to communication and information organizations that collected and conveyed and “stood between” the sources and the users of that information.  It actually began as an advertising term (“mass-media”) to gauge … Continue reading →

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The Arrogance of Thinking We Can Make the World “Better”

Posted on November 3, 2023 by Dave Pollard

Another brilliant cartoon by Michael Leunig. This is what comes to mind when I hear terms like “making good ruins” or “hospicing modernity”. There’s been a subtle shift in the tone of some prominent “collapsniks” over the last couple of … Continue reading →

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An Objective is Not a Strategy

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Dave Pollard

Sometimes I just can’t resist writing a rant. I should know better. I blame my conditioning. thanks to Indrajit for the link to Stephen’s chart One of the saddest signs of the west’s intellectual and cultural decline over the past … Continue reading →

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Unsolicited

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Dave Pollard

The financial success (and even survival) of so-called “social media” depends utterly on one thing. No, it is not ‘eyeballs’. It is advertising dollars, spent by corporate ‘managers’ gullible enough to believe that ads on social media platforms are anything … Continue reading →

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