It Doesn’t Have to Be Like This
Spending time among Russian antifascist punks taught me a political—and very personal—lesson. Benjamin Herbert
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Idols & Mass Deceptions
Articles observing and analyzing the basic mode of domination relying on control through charisma: lies, conspiracy theories, false consciousness, false binaries, historical revisionism, hero worship, scapegoating, dehumanization, and media manipulation.
Fear Makes Us Dumb, and Possibly Doomed
There is now a political constituency being crafted at the highest level that has fear as a motivating factor. Once the limits are taken off, we end up in this Mad Max world where whatever is politically profitable will be used, no matter how destructive it is.
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War, Revolution, and “Patriotic” Revisionism in 2017 Petersburg
“Monumental propaganda” is made to short circuit all of Russian/Soviet history, especially the country’s triumphs, to the current regime and its ruler for life.
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Tyranny: Consent and Resistance
We have to be braced, both in the sense that history gives us a framework for seeing what’s possible, but also in realizing that some of what’s possible is terrifying.
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“No, that’s not a tree.”
People getting paid thousands of euros each month to slip “Truth” into the shrinking gaps between ads think people practicing journalism out of conviction are untrustworthy, lol.
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Italian Lessons
The demoralization following the collapse in the nineties of the Communist party still shapes all aspects of Italian political life.
Liberalism, Fascism, and Emotional Neglect
It’s because liberalism and leftism have systematically neglected a whole range of human experience that we are in this mess right now.
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War Stories: Art, Propaganda, and the Memory Industrial Complex
“Memories are not simply images we experience as individuals but mass-produced fantasies we share with one another.”
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Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
Psychometrics and the (counter)revolution in marketing that is helping bring fascism to power around the world
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Trump, Brexit, Temer
Just as Trump’s election has validated all kinds of hate rhetoric in the United States, the removal of the PT government has validated all kinds of hate rhetoric in Brazil as well.
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