A post-history strip tease

[Newest Reality]

1. Edgy and relevent!

I like the writing style and the author embraces a host of issues with creative and punchy, concentrated prose.

Casino capitalism -- aka turbocharged neoliberalism -- is ruthlessly destroying the last vestiges of the welfare state and the egalitarian consensus in the industrialized West, possibly with the odd Scandinavian exception. It has established a "New Normal" consensus, intruding into private lives, dominating the political debate and institutionalizing for good the marketization of life itself -- the final act of fierce corporate exploitation of natural resources, land and cheap labor.

Turbocharged neoliberalism. That's a good way to put it.

And the Simulation is running very well as we slog around, dream-logged in the wakes and eddies of hyperrealism -- more real than real.