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How do you keep countries alive — fed, secure, self-sustaining? Call it “biopolitics.” Every country is a living body and We the People are its life force. Which means constitutions must be living documents.
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What's the real cost of our smartphone addiction? Study after study has shown that using Facebook all the time makes people feel moody, anxious, and depressed. And that's just the start.
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Social media platforms are trapping us in Skinner boxes. We keep swiping up and up, hoping for some connection to appear in notification-red that gives us a hit of temporary dopamine. But that endless loop is no accident — we're addicts by design.
Read More...Dive deep into long form features on everything from smartphone addiction to what a True-Cost global marketplace would mean for the economy.
Just as Adbusters’ worldwide circulation climbed beyond 100,000 and our NGO was becoming a geopolitical force to be reckoned with, a strange thing happened. I became disillusioned. Or rather, I became profoundly disappointed with politics of the Left. I felt that we had lost our way.We Lefties just weren’t . . . making things happen. A protest could draw a million people, but then everyone went home and resumed their routines. Internet campaigns whipped up great anticipation, but a week later you hardly even remembered what they were about.We whined a lot. Read many books. Knew what was wrong with the world but had no idea how to fix it.
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Hot off the press is the newest report of the Global Flourishing Study — an ongoing project managed by Harvard and Baylor which checks in with hundreds of thousands of folks in 22 countries to see how they're doing. "Flourishing" might best be described as truly crushing this thing called life. You're happy, you're healthy, you're at peace. Once again this year, the Scandinavian countries came out on top.The big surprise was who came out on the bottom: Japan, the UK, and the United States. Countries with among the highest GDP in the world.
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Young guy in a vest, holding a clipboard, came to the door.His timing wasn’t good – we were busy. “Thanks, sorry, can’t today,” I said through the crack in the door.“One minute, max,” he said.“Sorry, man, no.”It wasn’t clear what he was canvassing for, and I didn’t have time to find out.But he wasn’t leaving. My No hadn’t registered. He’d actually stepped forward. He was half inside the house. Only his hind end stuck out into the cold.“Listen, man. No! Look at me: No!”He looked me in the face. Blinking like a carp.I felt my fist wanting to go somewhere I’d regret. I redirected it into my pocket and found a ten—here, bugger off.The guy didn’t take it.“Sorry, can’t do a one-time payment,” he said. “We’re asking for a commitment of a small monthly amount.”“What? Nooooo!”
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We're in the middle of a guerrilla marketing war for the future of the planet. Conventional weapons are useless — all we have are ideas. These are the best of our culture jams.
Listen to the voice of Adbusters proffering sweet ASMR vibes about the end of capitalism and where Occupy Wall Street went wrong.
Memes can be cinematic too. Turn up the volume and watch the chaos of the world unfold and disintegrate before your very eyes.
Prime Day, Amazon’s yearly deal-hawking hoopla for its swindled subscribers, begins on June 21. And there’s never been a better occasion to cancel your Prime membership and boycott Amazon and all its subsidiaries (which include AbeBooks, Amazon Studios, Audible, Book Depository, ComiXology, Goodreads, IMDb, Twitch, Whole Foods, Zappos, and dozens more).
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For two decades Purdue Pharma peddled the falsehood that OxyContin, the painkiller at the heart of the deadly opioid epidemic, was safe and non-addictive. “More people in the United States died from overdoses involving opioids in 2017,” in Nature’s account, ”than from HIV- or AIDS-related illnesses at the peak of the AIDS epidemic.”
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Our world is being carved into two spheres of influence. For now, those spheres are limited merely to economic competition. But as the the tension mounts, there is a real possibility that the China-vs-U.S. face-off could spill over into an all-out war — a global fight for worldwide hegemony — maybe even World War 3.
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