“American Apocalypse”: What It Looks Like When A Collapsing Empire Eats Itself
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Reblogged from last year, before Washington’s obsession with crushing Russia led to a rapid rise in prices that’s accelerating the deterioration of U.S. living standards. In a 2018 article, media theorist and futurist Douglas Rushkoff wrote an account of his experience with being paid to speak at “a super-deluxe private resort … on the subject of ‘the future of technology.’” The ultra-wealthy hedge fund managers he encountered at the event confronted him with queries that didn’t reflect what the affair was supposedly going to be about. Instead, he was met with a morbid insight into what the richest benefactors of capital and empire expect their system to look like after a civilizational collapse:
“American Apocalypse”: What It Looks Like When A Collapsing Empire Eats Itself
“American Apocalypse”: What It Looks Like…
“American Apocalypse”: What It Looks Like When A Collapsing Empire Eats Itself
Reblogged from last year, before Washington’s obsession with crushing Russia led to a rapid rise in prices that’s accelerating the deterioration of U.S. living standards. In a 2018 article, media theorist and futurist Douglas Rushkoff wrote an account of his experience with being paid to speak at “a super-deluxe private resort … on the subject of ‘the future of technology.’” The ultra-wealthy hedge fund managers he encountered at the event confronted him with queries that didn’t reflect what the affair was supposedly going to be about. Instead, he was met with a morbid insight into what the richest benefactors of capital and empire expect their system to look like after a civilizational collapse: