Don’t let the fraudulence of this civilization eclipse the supernova of authenticity hidden just beneath that thin membrane. Don’t let the vapid artificiality of mainstream culture cause you to miss the weird magic of life as it actually is. Don’t let the barrage of advertisements screaming “THIS IS NEVER ENOUGH” distract from the symphony of […]
Caitlin Johnstone
There Is Always Hope, And There Is Always Wonder by Caitlin Johnstone
I often hear talk of how depressing it is to learn the truth about what’s really going on in our society and in our world, including in the comments sections of the places my own writings appear. I’m always being asked for advice on how to keep going on when everything seems so dismal. This […]
Growing Up Means Extracting The Beliefs That Were Placed In Your Head By Others by Caitlin Johnstone
Most people never grow up. Not really. Growing up means maturing. It means becoming independent. It means developing into your own person and standing on your own two feet. Few people really do this. Because few people ever get around to extracting all the beliefs that were placed in their heads by other people. Most […]
Our Mortality Should Unite Us by Caitlin Johnstone
And that’s how we’re able to pretend we’re at odds with each other. To pretend it makes sense to live in a competition-based society where we need to claw our way overtop everyone else in order to get ahead in a zero-sum rat race that can’t exist without losers. To pretend it makes sense to […]
The Trouble With ‘Western Values’ Is That Westerners Don’t Value Them by Caitlin Johnstone
Have you ever noticed how those who shriek the loudest about tyranny in foreign countries are always the same people calling for the censorship and deplatforming of anyone who criticizes the western empire? It’s a ubiquitous mind virus throughout western society. Anyone — and I do mean anyone — who aggressively and consistently criticizes the […]
In This Disaster We Are All, Ultimately, Innocent by Caitlin Johnstone
The eat-or-be-eaten dynamic came crashing headlong through the dawn of a new species with a rapidly-evolved cerebral cortex and the sudden capacity for abstract thought, and all that fear and stress kept marching forward from generation to generation entangling itself with this added new element of thought, language and storytelling. This gave rise to societal […]
Trapped In The Slaughterhouse by Caitlin Johnstone
This is no civilization. It’s a slaughterhouse. A fake plastic performance staged to funnel human life into the gears of an insatiable machine. A fake plastic culture designed to keep us on the conveyor belt so that our life force can be converted into fuel for a soulless empire. A fake plastic society built to […]
We’ve Been Lied To Our Whole Lives About Everything That Matters by Caitlin Johnstone
Stories about protagonists who’ve been misguided their whole lives about something very important have been emerging in our culture for generations, and they continue to delight audiences in the box office to this day. The pauper was really a prince. Luke was Darth Vader’s son. Keanu Reeves had been living in a computer simulation. Bruce […]
The Empire Is Showing More And More Of Its True Face by Caitlin Johnstone
Genocide walrus John Bolton outright admitted to planning foreign coups with the US government in conversation with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday. That’s coups, plural. While arguing that the Capitol riot on January 6th of last year was not an attempted coup but rather just Trump stumbling around trying to look after his own interests, […]
The US Empire Acts Like A Textbook Manipulative Sociopath by Caitlin Johnstone
Propaganda only works if you don’t know it’s happening. Censorship only works if it doesn’t draw attention to the information being censored. The US empire’s nonstop campaign to control the world’s dominant narratives only works if it isn’t in the spotlight of public scrutiny. This is why those who draw attention to these things are […]