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“Crowds and Power,” by Elias Canetti, is a classic work that explores in detail the draw of the crowd for human beings. With the continued chipping away of the organic family of mother-child-father, human relationships inevitably become diluted and more subservient to a mass state. This detachment cultivates human alienation, which draws more people to answer to the call of the mass state’s mob.
Read the whole thing at Source: How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion
In a promotional video, the World Economic Forum summarizes the eight predictions in the following statements:
read the whole things at Source: No Privacy, No Property: The World in 2030 According to the WEF | Mises Wire
What could the next fifty years of Canadian media look like? If we’re smart, we’ll reconsider the past. There’s that haunting voice repeating “the past inside the present,” reminding us of a time when we almost paid attention to social good; when homegrown media could counterbalance propaganda from the south; when woodland critters were a big, fat metaphor for correcting our national mistakes now, before things get even worse. The Hinterland Who’s Who spots, for all their blunt cheesiness, now feel subversive because they remind us, half a century on, of the radical Canada they imagined. They recall the country we didn’t get, at least not yet.
Source: The Boring Brilliance of Hinterland Who’s Who | The Walrus
Socialism leaves little room for tragedy — that’s partly the point of it — and London was in love with the tragic. A socialist world, as he envisioned it, wouldn’t be much to write about. “The Strength of the Strong” (1911), which London wrote explicitly as a defense of socialism, features a group of tribal types sitting around bemoaning their inability to band together. Thanks to this lack of solidarity, they are always being defeated. But some day, Long Beard says at story’s end, ”all the fools will be dead and then all live men will go forward. The strength of the strong will be theirs, and they will add their strength together, so that, of all the men in the world, not one will fight with another.”
Some day. Meanwhile, the passions that kept London traveling wouldn’t let him anchor in socialism. The tension between the individual and the collective — between London and the world — that propelled his journey would have to be resolved elsewhere.
London sought the elemental, and the elemental qualities he located in American life were not the inevitability of socialism but selfishness and death. In “The Minions of Midas,” an exceedingly elemental story, the titular minions are a cabal of workers who blackmail a capitalist. He must give them $20 million, or they will kill people. They are, they explain, tired of being drudges and need capital to win life’s battle. The capitalist stands firm; the minions murder innocents steadily and with impunity; the capitalist kills himself. The minions declare their intention to continue killing until the last capitalist generation. And there the story ends.
read it all at Source: Jack London’s Endless Journey | The Village Voice
A drive by design towards ironclad concentration of power and geoconomic diktats was first conceptualized – under the deceptive cover of “sustainable development” – already in 2015 at the UN (here it is, in detail).
Now, this new operating system – or technocratic digital dystopia – is finally being codified, packaged and “sold” since mid summer via a lavish, concerted propaganda campaign.
read the whole sorry mess at Source: Escobar: From 9/11 To ‘The Great Reset’ | Zero Hedge
