Yet every #empire arrives at the same equation: when proximity to power becomes qualification itself, the pretense of anything else becomes too expensive to maintain.
Scipione spent his papacy accumulating art, building palaces, throwing banquets that bankrupted dioceses. His gallery still stands in Rome, a monument to #corruption that accidentally created #beauty.
What remains when America's most powerful #attention machine becomes inheritance?
(6/7)
Le Techno-Fascisme est en marche.
Asma Mhalla, essayiste et auteure de "Cyberpunk" (Seuil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-O3T_mg0W8
#technofachisme #politique #politics #cyberpunk #empire #gafam #democracy #fascisme
Pretty heartening macro view
"This 1-per-cent view has skewed our perspective on collapse and history. What we need now is a history of collapse for the 99 per cent. Only with that can we truly understand what the rise and fall of empires meant, both for the people of the past and also for us today."
Regime change in Iran is far harder than many assume. But if the Islamic Republic were to fall, the country already possesses the needed institutional scaffolding for democracy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/28/world/iran-is-prepared-for-democracy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #iran #elections #democracy
@thejapantimes
I find this article to be a bit disingenuous! It assumes that those pushing for regime change in #Iran ( #US, the #Zionist entity, #UK, #EU) are *actually* interested in it being a democracy! The list of countries where US #Empire has #overturned democratically elected governments is *legion*! They don’t care if the incoming regime is a dictatorship; they only want obeisance to the Imperium!
