The radical right again think it's a slam dunk to say Hegel, Marx and critical theory are "gnosticism" (following voegelin). This is how easy it is: (Although my one identifies it in belief structures rather than method)

"those states that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024 will likely continue to be among the hardest hit by disasters" - from the linked article. Denial is stronger than pain

The first concept is Me The second concept is No

If in the 60s and 70s the trend was the hypothetical 'Star Trek' future and 'soon we’ll live in communism,' and in the 90s it was the 'end of history,' today the general trend is 'apocalypse.' Everyone interprets it differently: some plan to ascend to the heavens among the

Original oppositions: Positive vs natural (law) Negative vs affirmative (statements) Then came: Posit vs negate (philosophy) Positive vs negative (electricity) Positive vs negative (valuation)

Curious to see if the intellectuals who outed themselves as neoconservatives and civilisational chauvinists to support the genocide will pivot back to 'liberal realism'

Fun fact: time to citizenship and voting for the Uitlanders in Transvaal was one of things the started the Boer war, 5-7 years being seen as too long

Nationalism isn't the 'disease', supremacy is. Supremacy issues from the upper class who feel it organically and promote it as a national attribute to mobilise the nation in their own interest.

So many young people take great pride in becoming soldiers of money. "Look at how good I am at extracting more numbers than other people. Even Goldman Sachs noticed how good I am at altering database entries. All mediocre people should be looking up to me." It's grotesque.

Much discussion of what is going wrong, little of why. Short answer: the Sauron eye of financial capital finally focused directly at "the computer nerds" and reformed their business: 1. Client capture 2. Client surveillance 3. Squeeze clients 4. Monopoly

The key case for this alleged predatory lending is the Sri Lankan port story. In reality, the external debt burden was primarily USD, a Chinese SOE paid for equity to help relieve the SL govt at their request.