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Fear and Fascism: Tools of the Trade

05/12/2015

To persist, the capitalist order demands submission to ruthless authority and must peddle fear of an alien other....

The Carnival of Consumerism and its Tawdry Trinkets

03/10/2015

How sensation replaces experience in the Late Capitalist Empire...

Delighted! On Bernie Sanders Congratulating Jeremy Corbyn

21/09/2015

Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn may use a similar rhetoric, but there it stops....

Lauding Republicans (reluctantly). US Election Hyperbole and Hypocrisy

30/07/2015

McCain is not a war hero. Heroes do not drop bombs on civilian targets from tens of thousands of feet...

Small of Stature, Great of Nature

02/07/2015

The diminutive are spurned, scorned, defamed and relegated to the margins....

I Want it NOW! How Rarity Affects Desire

10/02/2015

Psychologists have long known that you can make a consumer good more desirable by making it appear rare. ...

On Killer Cops and Reverse Racism

09/12/2014

Does one identify with and/or benefit from hyper-authoritarian power or does one empathize with the plight of the powerless?...

Do Stuff, Not Have Stuff = Happy

04/09/2014

People thinking about impending experiential purchases, such as ski passes, have higher levels of happiness than those anticipating spending money on things...

Buy Before You Die

14/06/2014

Marketing's cringiest ebb to date: 'some people might want to spend more and work less – just in case their time runs out'...

Politics as usual, Has Failed

27/05/2014

In our time, politics as usual has failed to address the most pressing issues of the age...

Snobby Staff Boost Sales

04/05/2014

When it comes to luxury brands, the ruder the sales staff the better the sales....

Empire’s Halloween Pt 1

27/10/2012

The US Empire is dead meat. We should lose the imagery of a noble and lofty bald eagle: rotting road kill should be proclaimed our official national animal....