globalization

Hillbilly to Kill Globalization

Submitted by ban nock on Thu, 04/23/2020 - 7:38am

I recently read an interesting article by the conservative J D Vance. He made a stir a couple years ago with a semi autobiographical book on growing up in a factory town as the progeny of the American south. The book didn't impress me so much as his characters are plenty familiar to most people blue collar in America. But I did recognise the name and read the article.

Google's Gulch - Neoliberal Globalization Propaganda Masquerading as Science Fiction

Submitted by arendt on Wed, 02/20/2019 - 2:35pm

I'm a politics junkie and a scifi junkie. So, when two books, Infomocracy (book 1) and Null States (book 2), that were touted as merging those two genres came out, I bought the books. But, after reading them, I was repulsed by their world government, libertarian, Identity Politics take on the near future.

"State Stores" - an OP I wrote in 1997. Still completely accurate.

Submitted by arendt on Fri, 10/27/2017 - 5:44pm

Teaser for visibility:

Twenty years ago we used to mock the Communists for their dreary
"State Electrical Goods Store #12". Now we go to dreary category
killer stores like Home Depot, which make the old Russian
stuff look mom-and-pop size.

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The controlled demolition of the First World Nation states.

Submitted by arendt on Sun, 10/08/2017 - 5:44pm

The thermite of globalization has been cutting the structural steel of First World democracies since the 1970s (see the quote at end). The economic crash of 2008 was a blow an airliner impact that rattled all nations, but did not quite knock them down - except for the PIIGS victims of bankster fraud. However, 2008 began the trash fires of racism and anti-immigrant agitation.