4 years ago
Red Pill or Blue Pill? Variants, Inflation, and the Controlled Demolition of Society
Unsurprisingly, Santa brought us yet another Covid Christmas, replete with the usual set of presents: facemasks, quarantines, social distancing, coercive inoculations, vaccine passports, non-stop media fearmongering, and lockdowns. Two years …
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4 years ago
The Central Bankers’ Long Covid: An Incurable Condition
Sheep spend their entire lives being afraid of the wolf, but end up eaten by the shepherd. (Popular proverb)
By now it should be clear that COVID-19 is, essentially, a …
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5 years ago
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Systemic Collapse and Pandemic Simulation
A year and a half after the arrival of Virus, some may have started wondering why the usually unscrupulous ruling elites decided to freeze the global profit-making machine in the …
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5 years ago
Slavoj Žižek, Emergency Capitalism, and the Capitulation of the Left
As an admirer of Žižek’s work, I found his viral responses to Covid-19 (books, short texts, interviews) rather disappointing, and in many ways representative of the Left’s capitulation to the …
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5 years ago
Prolegomena to a Franciscan Capitalism
“La conjuration des imbéciles” is the title of a short essay by Jean Baudrillard published in Libération on May 7, 1997. Reflecting on the political success of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s …
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6 years ago
The Absent Cause: Time, Work and Value in the Age of Coronavirus
Making ‘good use’ of Covid-19 is without a doubt illusory, not to mention offensive for those who – as always the weakest social groups – die, suffer and are now …
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