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Can freedom survive in the age of frictionless control?
Mark Jeftovic explores why surveillance, digital identity, and technocratic governance increasingly feel inevitable in a collapsing institutional…
May 23
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Notes from the edge of civilization: May 17, 2026
Cheat codes; down with 'experts'; paging Mr. Peanut; Way-mo than people want to see.
May 17
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You are the carbon they want to remove
How governments restrict the movements of ordinary people to prevent forest fires, but protect the industrial systems reshaping the forest itself.
May 14
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'Money trauma': slippery slope to a cashless society?
A look at what might happen when the language of healing begins to overlap with the language of policy.
May 7
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A deeper look at what lies behind 'Universal High Income'
As Courtenay Turner explains, beneath the language of automated abundance lies a very different kind of structure — one that raises some very hard…
May 2
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Book Chat recap: Learning from the collapse of Imperial Russia and the failed White resistance
A recording from Collapse Life's live discussion about 'Always With Honor', by General Pyotr Wrangel.
Apr 26
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Five news headlines that vanished quickly
These major stories dominated the news… but have since gone quiet. In the interest of staying on top of the stories behind the stories, here's an update…
Apr 25
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Return of the (s)mack
Are we being ritually humiliated again?
Apr 21
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Notes from the edge of civilization: April 19, 2026
Flying increasingly unfriendly skies; AI slop just met its match: Real slop; Extend and pretend is hitting main street; Squirrels everywhere.
Apr 19
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Notes from the edge of civilization: April 5, 2026
Bonfire of insanities means an unstoppable gravy train; Canada wins gold in the Equity Olympics; plus, the 'K' economy in action.
Apr 5
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Predictive programming: when fiction stops being fiction
On this week's Collapse Life podcast, a discussion about how the clues are everywhere, if you choose to notice them.
Apr 4
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The toll booth at the end of history
For four centuries, we told ourselves the sea was free. Then someone stood at the narrowest point on earth and asked for payment.
Apr 2
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