CGLambdin

Time travel probably doesn’t exist. No one came from the future to stop the Boomers from ruining everything.

America is about to turn 250. Get ready for the usual rhetoric. What will not be discussed is America as a system, what it is doing, what it has always done. After all, if America is really only turning 250, then how the hell has it been at war for almost that long? You read that right.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thelaterallens/p/the-bum-on-the-plush?r=j1lfe&utm_medium=ios

I heard Trump said after the UFC fight he wants to be able to give a thumbs up or thumbs down.

Get ready for spikes in people reporting paranormal experiences around data centers. It’s coming. They cause an insane amount of infrasound, which has been identified as a cause of people believing their house is haunted. 👻

New piece. If you like it please share.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thelaterallens/p/the-bum-on-the-plush?r=j1lfe&utm_medium=ios

A telltale sign of fascism is the hollowing out of the public and the exultation of privatization. Along with this comes a devaluing of professors, doctors, and intellectuals. Learn to recognize the signs.

The layoffs aren’t going anywhere. At least you should know why.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thelaterallens/p/we-can-do-better?r=j1lfe&utm_medium=ios

Amen

A: Making higher education free would greatly reduce the significance of getting a college degree.
B: College is artificially kept prohibitively expensive to help maintain our class system.
C: You’re both saying the same thing.

You can’t make this stuff up. Canada throws in the towel on its much hyped “Victims of Communism” memorial after realizing that the majority of names they were going to inscribe on it were of Nazis.

https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/victims-of-communism-memorial-names-nazis

What if Captain America was actually more like Galactus?

https://open.substack.com/pub/thelaterallens/p/origin-stories?r=j1lfe&utm_medium=ios

Stories contain frames. Frames contextualize interpretation. A frame shared by enough people is invisible. It becomes “just the way things are”, the background against which the figure emerges in contrast. Just because a frame is unnoticed doesn’t mean it’s not there.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thelaterallens/p/narrative-warfare?r=j1lfe&utm_medium=ios

If we really want to “make America great again” then the focus needs to be on labor organizing, extreme regulation of corporations, governmental oversight of big tech, and wealth taxes. There’s no two ways about it. We will not return to the heyday of working class jobs without the politics that prioritized workers.

After what is perhaps its second-longest hiatus of its 13-year history, my blog will be back on Monday. Thank you for your patience as I switched careers.

A full 50% of all consumer spending is now done by the richest 10% of the population and the swelling AI bubble, if it pops, will be 4x larger than the 2008 crash. This is not sustainable, but hey, as long as the rich get richer.

Convincing you that liberals are leftists is perhaps the greatest trick capitalists ever pulled.

In George Romero’s LAND OF THE DEAD, the zombies become class conscious, which I guess makes the living dead smarter than most Americans.

Remember, your definition of value matters more than your definition of done

https://thelaterallens.substack.com/p/starting-with-value