Predator:Prey :: Oligarchs:People
1984: Fiction or Handbook? “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life…
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A Bitlerian Jihad
Dear FBI: Relax.It’s a Word Play on Frank Herbert’s Book, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad “Jihad”: “a bitter strife or crusade undertaken in the spirit of a holy war” [emphasis added]“Fascism”: “a: any program for setting…
The Benefits of Substitutionary Phrases
Dysphemism: The substitution of a disagreeable, offensive, or disparaging word or expression for an agreeable or inoffensive one. Euphemism: The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive word or expression for one that is harsh, indelicate,…
Left-E-Nomics
In a flash of insight that comes all too infrequently, I began to understand the machinations of America’s political left are demonstrably analogous to economics. Power: The Currency of Elitists “Currency” is a medium of…
Where is Congress?
The flurry of Executive Orders from our Supreme Leader provokes me to wonder why Congress is idling by, and not complaining over the usurpation of their legislative power. On the other hand, if their work…
Not Again?!
Another movie of which I am fond is “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” One scene depicts the ship of the protagonists being tracked by missiles in an attempt to destroy it. One of the…
Moving Back to America: Know Your Enemy
Know Your Enemy Moving back to America will take a fight. Not an armed uprising kind of fight! (That would grant the autocrats and oligarchs justification to mobilize the armed forces. You can bank that…
2 Out of 34,944
How to Turn a Constitutional Republic into an Oligarchic “Democracy” Editor’s Note (5/27/2021): 2 out of 34944 is an estimate of the number of hours expended in voting (2) out of the number of hours…
Think! Like Me!
Once Upon A Time. . . . There once was a place where competing ideas were allowed to exist, if not flourish. Its inhabitants mutually granted others permission to hold alternative views, at least tacitly…