Category: Politics
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Collapse
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Global Civilization Collapse Maintain the status quo, whatever we do. We continue to hear an ongoing diatribe about sustainability. According to the work of Dan Brooks Humans have become dependent upon technology, assuming that technology can and will save us from ourselves, from our behaviors. In reality, we should be considering how survival is to…
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Trepidation
The End of Reason This morning I awoke at 4:30 am, which of itself isn’t entirely unusual. I have a few physical issues that affect my sleep, but this was different. In the back of my mind was, and is, this amorphous, soft, but deliberate and intrusive voice. It is never explicit. Subtle, yet consistent…
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The Republican Party is Dead
All Hail the Authoritarian Neofascists If I hadn’t lived it, I would have said it wasn’t possible. American Republicans have become Anthoritarian Neofascists (ANists from here on). Gone are the days of a balanced two party system capable of governing. As Robert Reich wrote in the Guardian on April 19th of this year, “America…needs two…
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The Politics of Failure
The Vote Versus Action As a one-time student of politics, particularly of identity politics and strategy, it strikes me that Ian Bremmer’s comments of Jan. 2024 in Eurasiagroup ring true. He states, “Public trust in core institutions—such as Congress, the judiciary, and the media—is at historic lows; polarization and partisanship are at historic highs. Add…
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The Politics of Disaster and Contempt
The Literal Recipe for Disaster In Our Time Shortly, I will be dividing my blog/site into two completely different venues. One will be political, simply because it’s impossible to ignore the ignorance and stupidity being visited on all of us currently. The second reason is that to ignore politics is to be doomed to repeat…
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If You Could Go Back and Have a Talk With Your 18-year-old Self, what would you say?
As I am in, according to statistical data, the last quarter of my life, I often wonder what I would say to myself were it 54 years earlier? It isn’t a simple question to answer if one is honest. When young, we ignore time, we ignore risk and we ignore our health. Finding one’s feet,…
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The Precipice of Ignorance: Teetering on the Edge. A Political Observation.
I’ve always believed in science, logic, rationality, and reason, yet today I find myself inordinately worried about the lack of reason, facts, logic, and rational discourse. Carl Sagan, in his book, “The Demon-Haunted World”, wrote the following: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States…
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The Winds of Change
Fifty-two years ago I was a 17-year-old idealist, who had his life planned, his destiny, organized. I was planning to graduate from High School and then be accepted into the Canadian Armed Forces as a cadet in the ROTP or Regular Officer Training Plan, similar to going to the Naval Academy at Annapolis or West…
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A New Year?
I’m going to end this year with what some will see as a political statement. I suppose that someone whose field of study was Strategic Studies can’t help but land there at least once in a year. The winds of change are apparent, with all the unpredictability and chaos that it may well visit upon…