Lately I’m impressed by some ordinary establishment types who seem to be grasping the truth of our predicament, while the alleged independents have either converged to Gaia or veered off into denser and denser underbrush.
This ordinary economist, Steve Hanke, SEES the war situation and the public “health” situation with stark clarity.
“This war against Russia, that’s really being led by the US, is throwing a spanner into the economy.”
YES, YES, YES. Nobody else comes out directly and unapologetically with the plain truth. We are conducting a long unending permanent WAR AGAINST RUSSIA.
Hanke is about to publish a book saying the following:
“The conclusion is that lockdowns don’t do anything to improve public health, but they kill the economy.”
YES, YES, YES. This was obvious 100 fucking years ago. In fact it was known and proved at the EXACT SAME TIME when we started our permanent war against Russia.
Later Hanke discusses blockades and sanctions with equal clarity. We’ve been blockading Cuba and North Korea and Persia for decades, and Russia for one decade, and we’re only damaging our own economy. We’re HARDENING the regimes in the countries that we pretend to be changing.
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Another non-independent is Richard Rushfield writing at the Ankler. Discussing the upcoming writers strike:
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Whichever way this worm turns: we’ve got an industry that is flailing, befuddled and backwards-looking at this moment. If the writers aren’t going to settle for more than some half-measure reversion to antediluvian pre-history, there has got to be a vision of a better world ahead here in someone’s head.
And at the moment in this industry, no one seems capable of dreaming such dreams. Who among our industry leaders, riddled with their own issues and anxieties, is going to stick their neck out to get this thing done?
So the difficulty is the writers are trying to create a just, stable corner in a business where there’s no stability.
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Stability is the NECESSARY BASE of civilization and thinking and learning. We can’t work or learn or experiment when there is no CONSTANT BASELINE to measure our efforts and check our trials and errors. We’re solely occupied with raw survival amid the infinitely speedy and convoluted switchbacks of our infinitely evil psychopathic rulers. And the rulers love it.
Rushfield again:
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It’s been four months since the last family film (Puss in Boots) was released. And there’s not going to be another one until Little Mermaid at the end of May. To put that another way, there will be only two (!) family films released in the first half of this year. To put that one more way, of the many studios running around these days, Universal will be the only one with family films on screens in the first half of this year. Not even Disney. Which is like… Kellogg’s not manufacturing any breakfast cereals for six months. … This is family films — as close to the core mission of industrialized entertainment as you can get.
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Most industries are stuck in the same idiocy. When organizations are freed from the LIFE-GIVING NEGATIVE FEEDBACK LOOP of profit, organizations will run wild. Parkinson kills. They will satisfy the “critics” or the shareholders, whose tastes and desires are always destructive and murderous. Ordinary people will be left out in the cold, with no movies they can watch or beer they can drink or air they can breathe.
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