02-DD
02-DD
Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.
Populism is not an opinion. It is a phase dynamic.
Nationalism and anti-immigration movements recycle the same script: identify an external group, blame them for decline, and convert frustration into political capital. Yet the structural causes—corporate monopolies, rent-seeking industries, regulatory capture—remain largely unexamined. People misattribute the erosion of wages, housing affordability, and job security to migrants because scapegoating offers a simple, visceral answer where systemic […]
Rich people shitting on poor people isn’t news. That’s history. That’s the shape of it. Empires, estates, banks, data farms—it’s all the same system, just re-encoded. The mechanisms change—feudalism becomes finance, whips become wage contracts, enclosure becomes copyright—but the structure doesn’t. Power aggregates. Wealth consolidates. And the people underneath are expected to be grateful for […]