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Polycrisis soup is permanently on the menu

I may be wrong about this but it seems to me that, when I was younger, the world's craziness was delivered in smaller doses. You had time to look at the crazy or appalling episodes that occurred in some kind of isolation, think about them and consider what they meant to you and your life. If that was ever true then it isn't anymore. These days the madness is flung in massive dollops, all mixed up into a brown goo of insanity with no separation between its unpalatable ingredients and no breaks between the furious flinging.…

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The corporate war on humanity

The murder of that "health insurance" CEO in the USA has blown the lid off a simmering conflict in which most of us are unwilling combatants. I'm not even repeating the dead guy's name, because it's irrelevant to my argument. And let's even leave aside, for now, the person who pulled the trigger of the gun that fired the famously inscribed bullets. In my view, what killed the CEO was the the corporation he served with such brutal enthusiasm, backed by the money system that gives such corporations their apparently invincible power. As I've said before,…

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Demons at work. Cartoon by the late Jack Gibson.

Are corporations a form of cancer?

If corporations aren’t demons then maybe they are cancers. Personally, I think they are demons. As I’ve noted before, they tick most of the boxes to qualify. They are effectively immortal. They possess people – making those people act evilly in ways they wouldn’t dream of acting if they weren’t possessed. Corporations torment people as a matter of course and don’t hesitate to harm any other living creatures and the Earth itself in pursuit of their abstract goal. If corporations are answerable to some grand boss “devil” then the head honcho of the hell they create…

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