Politics and its Discontents: Message From Orwell: "I Warned You"– A Mound Of Sound Guest Post

You don’t have to dig very deep to get a pretty clear picture of the decline of today’s global civilization. The good times are gone, over, finished. We’re out of stuff, plain and simple. The game today is for one select group of people to employ its considerable advantages to mine the remaining wealth out of everyone else. We’ve become the last, best natural resource and the system has been rigged to effect the greatest unearned transfer of wealth ever. It has symptoms – inequality of income, of wealth and of opportunity; the wholesale theft of political power through “capture” (Read more…)