The products might have changed, but the exploitative relationship between the "Western World" and the "Third World" remains the same. The pits of slime are now our coming from our own diseased western minds. And although the AI bubble is creating wealth at an unsustainable pace, "of all that the wold gets, the black world gets only the pittance that the white world throws it disdainfully."
With yesterday's announcement by the Pentagon that they will livestream a firing squad execution it seems we have now ticked off all the things on Orwell's list. I guess this shows that the decay of civilization is complete. Imprisonment without trial (we did him one better
Watching an obviously racist and fascist government disappearing people to uncertain fates abroad makes me want to do everything in my power to halt it. The problem is, I am lost as to what power I have to push back. I see people angry over gas and food prices, but
Malala tells us that not a day goes by that we don't see or hear something about the horrors that women and girls are living through. But no matter how painful these stories might be, we should never scroll past them. For, if nothing else, we can be
At some point we all start getting a little freaked out about the number we have to say when telling someone our ages. At 70, Ben Franklin decided to start counting backwards. I am not going to be that extreme, but today I turn fifty-ten. I will continue this