I hate calling it the Department of War. Not because it’s inaccurate—on the contrary, it’s more honest than “Defense.” It feels like capitulation to the spectacle, as if we’ve stopped pretending. The mask has dropped, and we’re all expected to clap for the absurdity.
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Doblin’s Citizens’ Diplomacy or Psychedelic Colonialism?
Just when I thought Cold War diplomacy couldn’t get weirder, Rick Doblin enters stage left with a proposal straight out of a psychedelic utopia: dose Soviet officials with MDMA to ease nuclear paranoia. Not theoretically. Literally.
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The 15 rounds of voting it took to install Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House is part of the carnival of folly that passes for politics.
Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
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