What Game Are We Playing?
Although I have shifted my newsletter to Ghost.io, people keep subscribing afresh here. So I thought I’d let you know about two posts you might not have seen if you are only waiting for substack:
What Game are We Playing? is my attempt to offer frames for the current political moment in the United States. All around me, people are trying to connect what's happening to historical events. Is this fascism? A hostile corporate takeover? A coup? I offer: Jenga Politics, Dismantlement, Arson, and other games. (And please, share what games you are seeing.)
The Ministry of Empowerment is an analysis of Facebook’s shift in policies to bend the knee. I focus on how this has nothing to do with free speech, but is downright a dystopian shift towards oppression.
I still only post sporadically. But please do join me at Ghost if you want to see the posts. Or, as always, visit my blog.
This great piece of artwork was commissioned from Pawel Kuczynski, who is a brilliant artist.
“Like everyone else, I’m stunned by everything I’m hearing…”
Remember “fragmented reality”?
For generations, much our informational reality was provided by single narrative explanations.
The Internet and social media have destroyed those mediums of reality creation.
Now we find ourselves in a unique situation where explanations are overtly false.
And the place where we look for answers is bat shit crazy because crazy gets traction and reasonable voices are squelched.
Oh well, it’s the DOD’s internet. The same internet the Chinese government and its citizens use for their banking, so I suspect everything we think may be true today, is actually BS.