From the vantage point of someone who has spent enough time in uniform to know what real threats look like, it’s always instructive to watch a much larger state invent imaginary ones. Some governments worry about missiles; the Northern Colossus worries about whether its citizens are having enough state-approved sex. Different risk matrices, same existential drama.
Their latest stroke of national genius is a full-spectrum campaign against the most dangerous … Read the rest
Tired after another long day, somewhere between last coffee and first irritation, I realised that I live inside a machine that never sleeps. Not a grand cosmic engine from Asimov’s Foundation, not even a gritty Morgan-style biotech nightmare. No, much worse: my own smartphone. A small rectangle that vibrates like a needy cat and occasionally shouts at me with a sound specifically engineered to activate the ancient lizard part of … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Suppose you spend long enough consuming Western news. In that case, you start to feel a kind of informational tinnitus — a high, continuous whine behind everything, a reminder that the machine is always running even when you’re not paying attention. It’s not a sound you can locate. It’s simply there, like an aftertaste, evidence that someone has been vibrating the air around your … Read the rest
