Martin Jay June 17, 2022 © Photo: REUTERS/POOL New Will the EU even be around, by the time the Ukraine fulfils the strict criteria to join the Brussels club? Pushed strongly by Macron, the Ukraine’s first steps to become an EU member state kick off soon in Brussels. But will the EU even be around, […]
It’s very difficult to find common ground that supports cooperation in the disintegrative stage of scarcities, rising prices, catastrophically centralized power and social discord. Today’s topic echoes Peter Turchin’s 2016 book, Ages of Discord, which I have often referenced in blog posts. I’ll also discuss two other books I’ve often referenced, Global Crisis: War, Climate […]
The realization that we’re not actually being represented at the federal level has eroded the consent of the governed for the national government. The foundation of any government is the consent of the governed. Democracies and republics are founded on the consent of the governed earned via representational or direct democracy: those who have a […]
The sooner we start preparing for degrowth, the better off we’ll be. A Chinese proverb captures this succinctly: By the time you’re thirsty, it’s too late to dig a well. Let’s consider livelihood options in an unsustainable economy of extremes that are unraveling, an economy that is being forced to transition to Degrowth. Nassim Taleb’s […]
Only those societies which still have a functional public interest / common good will survive; those ruled by the tyranny of self-interest will fall. I’ve discussed the moral rot consuming the American Project in blog posts and my books. This moral rot–perhaps better described as civic decay–is so pervasive and ubiquitous that we are forgiven […]
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Future historians will lament how cowardice of European politicians is jeopardizing the fate of their civilian populations to war and devastation. The leaders of the top three European Union states – and key members of the NATO military bloc – were in Kiev this week pledging more weapons. Yet cynically they were also deploring war […]
When nobody cares that systems have broken down and there is no will or interest in fixing essential systems, there is no happy ending. Who fixes systems when they break down? The answer appears to be: nobody. Here are three everyday examples from my own life, breakdowns which may be random and rare but which […]
The more kafkaesque quagmires you’ve slogged through, the more you hope “pay-to-play for the rest of us” beomes ubiquitous. You know how “pay-to-play” works: contribute a couple of million dollars to key political players, and then get your tax break, subsidy, no-bid contract, etc., slipped into some nook or cranny of the legislative process that […]
For everyone left out of the Fed’s hyper-financialized, hyper-globalized, hyper-inequality “new prosperity,” there’s always the bargain salmon cassarole. The latest issue of New Prosperity Magazine addresses the Fed’s “Goldilocks” inflation and the coming crack-up boom. New Prosperity Magazine’s maiden issue was published back in 2009, shortly after the Global Financial Meltdown had temporarily disrupted the […]
