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Getting Medieval

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What does Dr. Steve Keen think about the moral caliber of Trump supporters? Dr. Steve Keen nowhere directly evaluates the “moral caliber” of Trump supporters. His public commentary, including his Substack and interviews, focuses on structural economic forces that contributed to Trump’s rise (e.g., deindustrialization, the effects of the dollar’s reserve‑currency role, collapse of manufacturing). This includes policy analysis, especially around trade, tariffs, and macroeconomic instability (e.g., his critiques of U.S. trade policy and mainstream economics). In these materials, Keen frames Trump’s political success as a symptom of long‑running economic dysfunction, not as a referendum on the personal virtue or vice of his supporters. Across his work, Keen consistently argues that economic systems create political outcomes, including populist surges. Manufacturing decline and financialization have produced widespread economic insecurity. Voters respond to real deteriorating material condi...
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Second Dualism

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Why, if the oil barons lost this "cold civil war" to the financiers, this struggle continues? The struggle continues because the “war” didn’t end with the subordination of Big Oil. Oil was only one of the old power centers. What's tracking is a long‑cycle realignment of elite blocs, and that realignment didn’t stop just because one faction got folded into another. Big Oil lost—but the system didn’t stabilize. When the oil barons were absorbed into global finance, that didn’t produce equilibrium. It produced a vacuum. Oil’s defeat meant that one of the 20th‑century sovereign blocs disappeared. Its institutional power was redistributed upward into finance, its political machinery (regional patronage networks, regulatory capture, foreign policy leverage) became hollowed out, but finance didn’t become omnipotent. It became overextended. A system where one bloc becomes too dominant tends to generate new challengers, not peace. The real successor challenger wasn’t oil—it was te...
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Epstein’s email reads like a pitch, not a manifesto

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Either Epstein is offering to overthrow Putin or he is helping Putin to collect kompromat. Both can be true, just as NATO expansion and Putin's claim that Ukraine is part of Russian Civilization is true. He can lie after that since lying (like blackmail) is part of the Russian defense mechanism. The Thiel email. Here’s the key thing I'm running into: I'm treating “the Dark Enlightenment” and “the Owners of Financialized Capital” as two clean, mutually exclusive blocs, when in reality they behave more like overlapping Venn diagrams with porous membranes, shared intermediaries, and opportunistic alliances. The Thiel–Epstein connection doesn’t contradict my model. It reveals the structure more clearly. Epstein was not “finance” — he was a broker of access. This is the first place where the contradiction dissolves. Epstein wasn’t a sovereign node of the OCGFC (Bolsen’s term).  He was a connector, a social graph optimizer, a black‑box concierge who: - linked money to science  ...
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Something Has Made the Sci-Fi Kid Mad

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Damien Walter uses “modernity” in a very particular, almost dramaturgical way. He’s not just talking about “the modern era” in a historical sense; he’s talking about a civilizational operating system—a worldview that shapes how people imagine themselves, their agency, their stories, and their futures. Modernity is a story about the self. For Walter, modernity is fundamentally a narrative regime. It tells people: You are an individual. You are rational.  You can choose your own story. Progress is linear and inevitable. He often frames this as the “modern myth of the heroic individual,” which he believes is both empowering and deeply limiting. It’s the story that underwrites everything from self-help culture to superhero movies. Modernity is a break from tradition. Walter sees modernity as the moment when Western societies fractured the image and disenchanted the world. It replaced myth with science. It replaced tradition with choice. It replaced communal identity with personal ident...
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The Time After This

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What worldview actually matches the lived reality, pressures, and latent capacities of a global supply‑chain workforce that might become a creative minority? 🌍 First: What defines this hypothetical creative minority? These workers: - operate inside planet‑scale interdependence - experience feedback loops, delays, cascades, and fragility firsthand   - have material literacy and temporal discipline - coordinate across cultures, languages, and jurisdictions   - are already living inside a systems-theoretic worldview   - are not elites, but they hold leverage and situational awareness   - are stratified but share a common operational reality   This is a class whose nervous systems are shaped by interbeing, whether or not they have a name for it. So the question becomes:  Which belief system amplifies their latent worldview and turns it into a civilizational outlook? 🧭 Engaged Buddhism vs. Dyerism for a Supply‑Chain Creative Minority H...
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Osireion

If Wayne Dyer had actually sat down with Thorstein Veblen, the collision would have been spectacular—in the way tectonic plates are spectacular. You’d get uplift, subduction, and probably a few new mountain ranges in the landscape of American self‑help and social theory. Let me sketch the fault lines and then the synthesis, because the fun is in the friction. Osiris roams the skies in his mirror-hulled Conscience Egg, following the Mediterranean subduction arc from the Strait of Gibraltar to where it ends at the Zagros Fold‑and‑Thrust Belt where Zeus parried Atlantis's scalar howitzer projection and caused the Seymareh Landslip, the biggest landslide for 10,000 years. The traumatized Sumerians remembered it as Anu's rebuke of an impudent mountain - also a wrathful sky-father who in this mythos is oft-troubled by mountains with personalities who forget their place in the scheme of things and become prideful. Now even the European canal where the Wandervogel wanderers once trampe...
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