In a time of crisis, anything seems possible. In today’s slow moving descent into globalism, which James Bowery describes as a system that turned us all into ‘mechanical turks’, the recent emergence of a global pandemic has thrown all previous assumptions into question and opens the possibility for something new. With a strong science background…
Month: March 2020
Emergency Broadcast – Plague Wars Edition
Don the mask. Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 162 – Emergency Broadcast – Plague Wars Edition — References — – Deliverance, Boorman (1972) – Invaders Within – Outbreak and the Threat of Bioweapons, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/invaders-within-outbreak-and-the-threat-of-bioweapons/ – The Largest Financial Event Of Our Lifetime Is Upon Us, Nugget’s…
Entitlements – The High Cost of Good Intentions
In 1883, Otto von Bismarck enacted a series of stated-funded social programs geared towards offering direct financial assistance to poorer segments of German society. Often viewed cynically as an attempt at staving off socialist revolution in the working class, Bismarck’s system for the rapidly industrializing (and militarizing) nation has proven a model for many governments…
Korean Tiger – the Park Chung-Hee Era
In the West today, and throughout much of the 20th century, rapid Asian economic development was something that proceeded so consistently that it appeared as if by natural law. Like Japan before it and with China today, however, behind the scenes were often very driven leaders who, in South Korea’s case, seized power in a…
Myth of the 20th Century 