As illustrated with 25 Economist covers — The West has privatized propaganda, like everything else. Economist covers, which I’ll cover here, would be laughed at if a government produced them. However, because the ruling class produces them instead of a ruling party, they hide in plain sight. And yet just look at them.

It’s just a little bit of history repeating — It feels a lot like the 1970s. Fuel prices are rising, the Third World is writhing, and Silk Sonic is vibing in bell bottoms again. War in Ukraine has blown up energy prices like the 1973 Israel War, with the West somehow sanctioning itself this time. …

Not planning our economies is just planning to fail — Something’s got to give. Unchecked growth against a finite planet is just cancer. It just leads to pointless inequality—10-minute private jet flights over a burning California. Unless we plan our economies to balance human needs and the planet, we will have neither. Capitalism Alone The idea that markets can deliver human or…

Property is winning — When some Sri Lankans burnt MP's houses, that was called violence. But when the ruling class, beat, gassed, caged, and killed people, that was called ‘keeping order’. …

Sri Lanka is a systemic collapse, and you live in the same system too — It’s tempting to look at Sri Lanka and then look away. To think that it can’t happen to you. To say that we were just ruled by idiots, didn’t plan ahead, and made our own fate. This is true, but look at America, or the UK, or any supposedly safe…

Sri Lanka was the first South Asian country to neoliberalize, and the first to fall — If you look around the crime scene of my life, you can get a sense of what happened to Sri Lanka. I have a car, imported goods, was educated abroad, and pay very little taxes. Rich people like me cause a huge trade imbalance, while also pushing for conservative policies…

And how America’s military actually sucks — Teddy Roosevelt said ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’ but America today is screaming about Russia and holding nothing but its dick in its hands. And it gets cold in Russia. The Powerless Superpower How long can an empire keep losing wars without losing power? As Andrei Martyanov asks “where are the…

Everybody’s got COVID and 🤷🏾‍♂️ — I used to look at the COVID numbers and feel scared about the world outside. Now COVID is inside my fucking body and the numbers are disturbingly reassuring. It feels like there’s a huge wave crashing over the whole world and we’re acting like we’re mermaids, but we’re not. My…

Always has been — Sri Lanka is about to ‘elect’ a President with just 225 people voting. These people are our MPs, who are so roundly despised that 80 recently had their houses burnt down. It’s a farce. Sri Lanka has gone full oligarchy, rule of the few over the many. I think it…