National identity cards are, as everyone should know, a terrible idea. But modern Digital ID, based on crypto block chain technology and protective of privacy, is a very different animal.
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NatWest Group boss Alison Rose has admitted she was the source of the BBC's incorrect story about Nigel Farage's de-banking fiasco – but, ludicrously, the bank's board has said it still has "full confidence" in her.
Get ready for the next phase of the government’s war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions. Under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch […]
Our descent into City Airport was like the drop-ship scene in the movie Aliens. The BA CityFlyer Embraer 190, a narrow-body twin-engine airliner, rolled over into a 40-degree bank and started bucking like a mechanical bull. Simulated “chimes” began chiming frantically. Flight attendants bolted for their seats. The German businessman in the seat beside me, […]
It is indeed a tale of many cities, worlds, perspectives, and then we have beliefs and morals. Add to that alternative and ulterior modes of realities, and we have a virtual Babel’s Tower of conflicting, contradicting and confusing form of “discourse,” or debate. Never mind the Matrix angle of things! In today’s Western Culture (sic), […]
Alain Badiou is undoubtedly among the greatest of living philosophers; one that may fairly be credited with rescuing philosophy from academic irrelevance, and the twin enemies of scientism and historicism. For Badiou, philosophy does not merely interpret the world (as Marx famously asserted in his “Theses on Feuerbach”). For an interpretation of the world, we […]
Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet published his book The Psychology of Totalitarianism in June 2022. The book brings attention to the need to understand our own psychology in this time of global crisis. It outlines the process of mass formation by … Continue reading →
21WIRE | As it turns out, their sordid operation was much worse than anyone thought.
Mattias Desmet’s theory of Mass Formation attracted a great deal of attention in 2022. In this review of Desmet’s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, we argue that it manifests the psychology of atrocity – and that "Mass Formation" paradoxically serves to legitimize the mass atrocity perpetrated during the Covid-19 era.
Covid-19 – Mass Formation or Mass Atrocity?.
Academy of Ideas | Here is the end result of our post-modern society's increasingly popular cult of nihilism.
