Books/Magazines/Podcasts:

• No Logo by Naomi Klein

• Adbusters by Kalle Lasn

• Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev

• A New Train of Thought (though somewhat ham-fistedly) by Various Writers

• Ashes, Ashes by David Torcivia and Daniel Folkner

• Reset by Roland J. Diebert

Fitting the description of movie/show:

• Mr. Robot

• Utopia (UK version)

• Killing Them Softly

• The Big Short, Margin Call

• Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

• 3-Iron (Korean film)

• Parasite (Korean film)

There are several documentaries and short films

• The Corporation by Joel Bakan, Harold Crooks, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott

• Who Killed the Electric Car?

• The End of Suburbia

• Man by Steve Cutts (3m47s)

• Nuggets by Andreas Hykade (5m06s)

• The Power of Nightmares and HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis

Also, you might search for films about “corporate malfeasance”.

• Michael Clayton (top pick)

• The Insider (top pick)

• Erin Brockovich

• Dark Waters

Send him to the Hague. Then, I’ll know he’s real.

As an introvert, it’s actually easier for me to talk to strangers. Fewer attachments, lower risk thresholds, can bail when I need to. Mostly it’s jokes or insights, comisseration and comedy are easy roads in.

Expecting, or pursuing the establishment of, human rights as a subjugate group or “subordinate” class.

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Um… has this series jumped the shark yet?

If it’s America… Again, the following:

• target practice

• cheap / unpaid labor

• scapegoating

• entertainment

• political wedge issue

• cannon fodder

• general purpose exploitation

• status symbols

• enemy images

Less that I took this to be the worldview of Card’s books. I’ve also read Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind.

More that there are operators in this world who, on reading this, see this as rationale and put it into practice.

Also: Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Greed. Ignorance. Intolerance.

Your workout, food, or personal hygiene regimen.

Exploitation, expropriation, or extortion.

Your subjective experience of opening a box, playing a video game, or viewing media.

Always a treat to hear the quiet part said out loud.

Though, to remain relevant, NATO is has to appease its in-house belligerent hegemon; especially when that particular orange monster is gobbling up oil-rich nations.

Iran may not be under NATO’s purview, but starving Ukraine is. When UKR F-16s are flying without missiles while trying to defend against Russia, NATO has to try to pry loose some armaments that will, otherwise, be funnelled to the aircraft carrier groups in the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean.

The world continues to slip toward all-out war. One miscalculation, one over-reaction, one missed signal and the several conflicts will morph into a single, giant kill zone between 16 and 50% the size of the planet — a World War.

At least that’s the nightmare we ought to be working hard to avoid.

As much as I hate this quote and it’s shrewd cold logic, this is what’s bearing down on us:

“The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.” ~ Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

It’s in because, well, I was surprised that Grey’s Anatomy is in its 22nd season.

Its interesting that interactions here center on the one pop-culture element of my comment and none on the others. Yes, it’s a non-sequitur. It stands out.

Is it because the others are all self-evident? Flogged to death? Too controversial? Not controversial enough? Insurmountable?

• Expensive education

• Cities planned for cars

• 5-day work weeks

• Grey’s Anatomy

• Nuclear weapons

• Racism

And I agree with the others who’ve said:

• Fossil fuels, particularly coal

• Private health insurance

Were you there when it happened to me?

I swear, that one Donald Sutherland scene in JFK had me going for such a long time on the conspiracy bent. I thought it was real.

Who knew, it was Kevin Bacon we needed to pay attention to all along.

Worse, it was produced by Alex Jones.

The Roots (first four albums especially)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor / A Sliver Mt. Zion

Portishead, Massive Attack

Public Enemy

Ah. Oops. Did not know I’d transgressed.

As far as I know, these cycles were written by the post-maker. I just found them compelling, each a visual and visceral view of our inhumanity toward ourselves. The writing is pretty good. The AI is illustrative, though not altogether the compelling element.