Virtual Reality State: news media, power and the Twitter files

Virtual Reality State: news media, power and the Twitter files

ByJeff Rich

If such fundamental deceptions, such as the USA President is ‘a Russian agent’ or Ukraine is ‘the beacon of democracy’, becloud the voting public, how secure are our political institutions, our halls of public reason, or our means of public choice?

Stockholm Syndrome or Stanford Prison Experiment – Interpreting the 2022 Victorian election

Stockholm Syndrome or Stanford Prison Experiment – Interpreting the 2022 Victorian election

ByJeff Rich

Victoria, like many post-democratic societies of the so-called West, is not a victim of Stockholm Syndrome. It is trapped in a Stanford Prison Experiment.

Flowers of the Mind 20
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Flowers of the Mind 20

ByJeff Rich

Descent into post-democratic crisis. John Ionnadis on saving democracy from the pandemic. Canada leaves the democratic nations – an Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Australia. Security crisis in Ukraine and the end of the Cold War – who really wants to invade Europe? The Russian Anxiety and our responsibility to refuse it

The Burning Archive Podcast #10 – The Parallel Polis and the Power of the Powerless
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The Burning Archive Podcast #10 – The Parallel Polis and the Power of the Powerless

ByJeff Rich

The latest episode of The Burning Archive Podcast is out and available on all the usual…

The post-democratic society is here
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The post-democratic society is here

ByJeff Rich

The post-democratic society has arrived. We need to turn away from the old priests and performers who are muttering grand concepts of democracy as a prelude to another circus performance in the decaying coliseum. We need to find our own new way in the feral cities of our distressed republics.