Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: They want to blow it all up https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Neil https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379631#post379631 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379631#post379631 Sat, 14 Jul 2018 21:06:55 +1200 Katharine Moody https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379630#post379630 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379630#post379630 In this instance it was the perception of a failed system, which was manufactured and propagated using computers as tools.

Not really – the system had definitely failed the vast majority of the middle classes. Elizabeth Warren spelled out that reality in real data prior to her entering politics;

**The…

]]> Sat, 14 Jul 2018 17:43:08 +1200 philg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379628#post379628 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379628#post379628 Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:59:08 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379613#post379613 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379613#post379613 Blow it up! nah not till they have returned us to the 1950's. Tho' they wont risk upsetting Russia
Babies beware

]]> Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:26:39 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379603#post379603 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379603#post379603 What struck me was how our two politicians were made up to the max for their interviews – whereas none of the working poor folks they were there to represent had any make-up on at all. Made me think.
Good governance needs strong foundation?

]]> Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:10:59 +1200 Katharine Moody https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379602#post379602 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379602#post379602 Sunday on TVNZ had a piece yesterday on the working poor in NZ. Carmel Sepuloni was interviewed;

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/sunday/clips/living-to-work

After that there was another piece where Julie Anne Genter was interviewed.

What struck me was how our two politicians were made up to the max for their interviews – whereas none…

]]> Mon, 02 Jul 2018 10:09:59 +1200 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379601#post379601 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379601#post379601 Mon, 02 Jul 2018 07:59:18 +1200 Katharine Moody https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379600#post379600 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379600#post379600
Time to sit up and take notice of the rise of Cenk Uygur, the TYT network and the Justice Democrats. There is hope yet for America!

Something revolutionary is sorely needed.

https://www.quorum.us/data-driven-insights/the-115th-congress-is-among-the-oldest-in-history/175/

]]> Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:11:12 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379596#post379596 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379596#post379596 Just so you all know:
THE 5TH EYE on Māori Television!
Rāhina 2 o Hōngongoi, 8.30 i te pō
Monday 2 July, 8.30pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crZpYH3b5mA

from NZ on Screen
This documentary questions New Zealand’s involvement in the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence alliance. The examination of contemporary intelligence gathering takes in NSA whistle-blower…

]]> Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:49:09 +1200 Neil https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379594#post379594 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379594#post379594 Mass shootings show why we must stop pandering to white male fragility

“In many of these mass shootings,” Jennifer Wright observed at Harper’s Bazaar, “the desire to kill seems to be driven by a catastrophic sense of male entitlement.” That sense of entitlement may well be the greatest threat to…

]]> Sat, 30 Jun 2018 08:06:12 +1200 Neil https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379593#post379593 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379593#post379593 It might be worth looking at some of this as the consequences of Man with Grudge.

The guy responsible for the Capital Gazette killings might not have been directly motivated by Trunp calling the media the enemy – the guys’s grudge appears to be long standing and specific to that…

]]> Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:56:33 +1200 Dennis Frank https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379591#post379591 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379591#post379591 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:56:24 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379588#post379588 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379588#post379588 And now we see the utter horror of Pinker's complacency – because for women in the USA there is every chance that Abortion will now become illegal.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/toobin-no-doubt-that-roe-v-wade-oveturned

]]> Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:53:20 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379587#post379587 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379587#post379587 miss completely engaging with Gould’s ideas

I don't think our ideas are that far apart.

But I find the willingness of old men in suits to pontificate and create theories of everything that explain the entirety of human social history to be ... well ... utter crap.

Inevitably the theories…

]]> Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:38:31 +1200 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379586#post379586 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379586#post379586 Time to sit up and take notice of the rise of Cenk Uygur, the TYT network and the Justice Democrats. There is hope yet for America! ]]> Thu, 28 Jun 2018 07:28:22 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379582#post379582 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379582#post379582 He’s written quite extensively on why he thinks people (men predominantly) so often treat others so profoundly badly and what he thinks prevents that from happening.

Im sure he has and his solutions may work in the US, if anyone bothers to try them. Outside the US Im not so…

]]> Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:47:54 +1200 Neil https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379575#post379575 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379575#post379575 But anyway, my reference to the Pinker-Gould debate was initially just a bleak joke on whether we have any grounds to be optimistic.

With in the US the increasing virilance of white identity politics and increased volume of the alt world via social media it’s looking bleak.

If there’s a…

]]> Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:45:43 +1200 Neil https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379567#post379567 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379567#post379567 No, but he pussyfoots around why it happened. People were at fault, they took up ideas based only on how it benefited them and they had no wider obligation than that.

He’s written quite extensively on why he thinks people (men predominantly) so often treat others so profoundly badly and…

]]> Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:44:05 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379566#post379566 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379566#post379566 Knap sackers...
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/26388/20150113/evolution-of-human-language-linked-to-tool-making.htm

and
American swamp sparrows may have sung the same songs for more than a thousand years. This shows that passing traditions on for generations isn’t unique to humans.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article213585634.html

]]> Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:28:15 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379563#post379563 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379563#post379563 the failure of liberal values to take hold in some areas proves him wrong doesn’t make sense.

No, but he pussyfoots around why it happened.
People were at fault, they took up ideas based only on how it benefited them and they had no wider obligation than that. Of course…

]]> Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:09:16 +1200 Neil https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379559#post379559 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379559#post379559 So no I don’t accept the thesis that things can only get better and I have little patience for Pinker and his ilk because frankly, whether he intends it or not, his ideas are being used to justify harm.

I don’t think Pinker is arguing things can only get better…

]]> Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:18:14 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379558#post379558 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379558#post379558 Well it's a start I guess
Some good ideas here calling it a game might appeal to some, but getting people to change their minds on the way they live is not a game 'cause it can take years, generations in some cases.

]]> Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:13:37 +1200 tussock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379554#post379554 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379554#post379554 For those struggling to understand Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder

Read. Really. The thing where he likes NK is just that they have these parades where tens of thousands of people salute dear leader in synchronisation, and he would like that for himself.

He's not a stupid man, nor actually inconsistent, he just…

]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:09:48 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379552#post379552 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379552#post379552 charasmatic authoritarian males – they don’t go away, there needs to be strategy to deal with them.

You mean to say the fields of finance, real estate, business, politics, sport, war, psychology, hollywood producing and cheffing are enough to keep said males out of mischief?
christ how many do they…

]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:27:50 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379550#post379550 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379550#post379550 His optimism about just how stable liberal societies are is something that’s possibly being put to the test by the likes of Trump and Putin.

Francis Fukuyama once wrote of the "end of history" following the USSR's collapse, and back then he was a bit of a foreign policy neo-con.…

]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2018 01:06:56 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379549#post379549 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379549#post379549 Pinker also completely ignores or handwaves away various elephants wandering around the room in order to show that the trend on the graph will comtinue it's slow upward rise over the course of centruies

Speaking of elephants...

]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2018 01:00:28 +1200 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379548#post379548 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379548#post379548 Pinker argues “don’t worry about it”

That’s a very unfair characterisation of his views.

I disagree. If you read 'better angels', that's exactly what he argues in relation to, say, ww2. 'Yes, sure this was horrible, but compared to the Mongols or Vlad the Impaler, not so bad, really. And…

]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:02:23 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379544#post379544 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379544#post379544 I think it would be a reasonable thing to say – if we continue advances in public health then overall the health of the population will improve. That’s been shown with vaccinations, fresh water supply etc.

Those were all the result of concerted action and application of liberal ideals

I…

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:11:19 +1200 Neil https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379541#post379541 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379541#post379541 Now that’s fine if you are dealing with maths but when you are dealing with people there really is no fundamental reason to believe that a trend will continue.

I think it would be a reasonable thing to say – if we continue advances in public health then overall the…

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:24:52 +1200 Chris Bowden https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379540#post379540 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379540#post379540 from Planet Money ]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:42:09 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379536#post379536 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379536#post379536 I think his argument has a lot of merit – the success of liberal values has made life better for a great number of people. Vastly lower mortality rates in child birth for example.

As Bart Janssen has noted, liberal values have failed to deliver this increased quality of life…

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:41:24 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379534#post379534 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379534#post379534 I think his argument has a lot of merit – the success of liberal values has made life better for a great number of people. Vastly lower mortality rates in child birth for example.

The problem is one of averaging. It hides a multitude on sins.

Yes on average health…

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:46:15 +1200 Neil https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379533#post379533 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379533#post379533 Yeah, this is exactly Pinker’s modus operadi, and my biggest problem with his hypothesis.

I think his argument has a lot of merit – the success of liberal values has made life better for a great number of people. Vastly lower mortality rates in child birth for example.

His optimism…

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:41:57 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379530#post379530 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379530#post379530
The torching of the WTO is a consequence of Trumps tariffs on, primarily, Chinese manufactured imports to America. Stacking the appeal court is a method to quash legal action to lift the tariffs. Ultimately the policy is as isolationist as the wall building stunt. When that project is complete I…

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2018 04:13:28 +1200 TracyMac https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379529#post379529 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379529#post379529 I think Pinker is often a wang, and the "eat your dinner, there are starving children in Africa" and "whinging feminists should try living in Saudi/Iran" is pretty much the epitome of wangness in argument.

We may be doing better compared to 30 years ago, but we *should* be. We…

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:51:24 +1200 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379527#post379527 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379527#post379527 Pinker

I get the feeling we are on one of those downwards jags of a plotted graph line so loved by scientists et al to show how we are generally improving in some way or other.

Yeah, this is exactly Pinker's modus operadi, and my biggest problem with his hypothesis.…

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:22:59 +1200 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379526#post379526 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379526#post379526 the Trump administration's steady suffocation of the Appellate Body at the World Trade Organisation. The US government has blanket-banned approval of new appointments to what is essentially world trade's appeals court, and the point is approaching when that court will not be able to operate.

Well, gosh, this is going…

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:18:30 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379525#post379525 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379525#post379525 https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/104905167/wronged-donald-trump-demands-more-credit--for-just-about-everything
The Romans had Juvenal
Amerika just has Juvenile

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:59:48 +1200 william blake https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379524#post379524 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379524#post379524 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:27:29 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379523#post379523 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379523#post379523 a short lived spandrel.
Architectural features aside – is a spandrel a cross between a spaniel and a scoundrel – Trump definitely has the 'flyaway hair' for it!
;- )

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:59:57 +1200 nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379522#post379522 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379522#post379522 The question I’m unsure about is who benefits?

Putin.

Yup. Exactly right.

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:26:18 +1200 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379521#post379521 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379521#post379521 Pinker
I get the feeling we are on one of those downwards jags of a plotted graph line so loved by scientists et al to show how we are generally improving in some way or other.

They may look small on the graph and while the general trend indicated may…

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:18:41 +1200 Neil https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379520#post379520 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379520#post379520 Putin

Authoritarian males in general.

As much as I agree with just about everything Pinker says I’m not quite convinced that the success of liberal values may not turn out to be anything other than a short lived spandrel.

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:31:15 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379519#post379519 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379519#post379519 That is horrifying: much worse than the Human Rights Council. I had no idea. Thanks for highlighting it.

I may have my lefty-liberal card withdrawn for saying so, but I agree. It’s way more serious than the UN Human Rights Council.

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:32:05 +1200 Matthew Hooton https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379517#post379517 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379517#post379517 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:20:51 +1200 Jason Kemp https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379516#post379516 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379516#post379516 Tantrums and chaos is the strategy and really that is not a strategy at all.

Blowing up a treaty with Iran because it was an Obama thing at the same time as making nice with North Korea is bizarro world.

I recently watched the Bourdain episode shot in Iran. Parts…

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:58:24 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379515#post379515 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379515#post379515 My attention has been drawn to this poll in which more than half of Republicans said they would support postponing the 2020 presidential election if Trump suggested it.

Nearly as many believed Trump had won the popular vote.

We are fucking doomed.

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:43:00 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379513#post379513 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379513#post379513 Putin’s whole intention is to undermine the rules-based world, returning to a 19th Century system where the powerful states can rule unimpeded.

Or, more likely I think, to weaken everyone else and bring them down to Russia’s level.

It’s the rational for Russian interference in the Brexit referendum, as well…

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:04:16 +1200 peter payne https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379512#post379512 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379512#post379512 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:26:10 +1200 Nick Russell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379511#post379511 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379511#post379511 Moreover, I don't think they want a rules-based world.

Bingo. Trump's regime takes a Randian approach to rules-based international organisations. America first is not just a slogan, it is a policy. They want to replace multilateral rules-based international organisations, which (in their view) restrain and limit American influence and power,…

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:10:59 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379510#post379510 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379510#post379510 The question I’m unsure about is who benefits?

Putin.

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:32:38 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379509#post379509 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379509#post379509 It's depressing.

Someone recently asked "what are you most afraid of globally?", meaning climate change, nuclear war, plague, antibiotic resistance etc.
What terrifies me is social collapse.

We think our social rules are robust, the basic social contracts we have with our neighbours, with the police, with businesses, with doctors,…

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:14:45 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379508#post379508 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379508#post379508 forcibly drugging infant minors with powerful antipsychotics. ]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:00:22 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379507#post379507 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379507#post379507 As journo and expert on fascist states, Sarah Kendzior, observes:

Trump has defenestrated the United States through the Overton window

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:41:22 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379506#post379506 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-they-want-to-blow-it-all-up/?p=379506#post379506 Discussion from blog post.

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