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Feral Finster's avatar

Used to be, the folks who really ran things weren't quite so open about it.

Rather than staying in the shadows, this particular neocolonial project can best be summarized as "We are openly looting, and there is nothing you can do about it, so fuck you!"

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

A "society" fundamentally driven by greed and the PR/brainwashing lies to promote the model of maximal capital extraction from every disaster --- every war, hurricane, famine, or other mass misfortune, every new opportunity to further rape the planet and biosphere --- is not a true society, but rather a a grotesque theatricality. Real societies are meant to be integrated dynamical systems, where tightly integrated parts function to enable a whole greater than the sum of those parts. Anglo-American Capitalism with its course governed by investor greed, with few (if any) functioning feedback controls on that huge financialized driver doesn't come close to real integration. It's instead a fragmented fiasco, a barely believably Kabuki performance in which the ghoulish voice of huge money drowns out all other voices of human timbre.

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