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Dictator 101
Raise the stakes, escalate, brutalise and threaten war but never, ever actually start a full-scale unrestrained conflict. Nothing so certainly disassembles dictatorial regimes as a blind leap into armed conflict and imperialist aggression. Sure, none of us will ever miss any of these unrepentant misanthropes but how few of them ever learn from the historical […]
Don’t be fooled into a false sense of security by the fact that a worst-case climate apocalypse is intimately terrifying on a scale exceeding any story that humanity ever told itself and is so far beyond our limited experience that we more readily characterise it as myth or fiction. At the scale of disaster we […]
