The gov-corp model is endemic to American politics, with its most explicit expression by an American politician in Woodrow Wilson’s 1887 essay “The Study of Administration.” It’s also the cornerstone of the philosophy of neoliberalism, as propagated by wankers like Friedrich Hayek, von Mises, and Milton Friedman. Under the neoliberalRead More
“Nothing appears more surprising… than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few, and the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.… force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded, and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the freest and most popular.”Read More
There’s no solution that’s better for the UK because by default the UK has pushed its interests to great effect since 1971. That’s the reality of the EU/UK relationship.
Artificial intelligence would be sinister if it meant synthesised general intelligence like an artificial brain (mantra: destroy all humans!) but it doesn’t mean that. AI is a media snowjob, automation that’s been around years spun into clickbait and snake-oil.
Hans evades having to pen this weeks ‘long read’ content by submitting instead a short but sweet takedown of religious experience. He reveals it to be another case of addict-personality, a useful Trojan story with chapters for regulating emotion (numbing) to chasing the junkie hit (rapture).
Tamsin isn’t interested in more useless dead-end stories and in this ‘long read’ she presents her conclusion that all the talk about Russians and their influence on election propaganda is a red herring, not simply because it’s unlikely but because it wouldn’t matter if it were 100% correct.
Tamsin writes about the appropriation of ideology by corporate capitalism, manipulating sincere important paradigms into mere vehicles for delivering sales by vaguely simpatico brands.
It’s popular to write about the self-evident importance of Judeo-Christian religion to the development of modern civilisation. But Agoston finds this unconvincing and in this piece tries to explain why.