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June 2, 2026 at 3:25 AM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
I’m reminded of this, recently read and saved:

Neobarbarism
“In their new world, instead of nation states there will be billionaire barons allied with armed garrisons; instead of international trade, coerced resource extraction …”
• from Timothy Morton

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“In their new world , instead of nation states there will be billionaire barons allied with armed garrisons; instead of international trade, coerced resource extraction; instead of social participation and welfare provision, massive repression and individualised struggle for survival. This explains why Trump can talk so freely of seizing Canada, Greenland, Panama: he no longer assumes any of the external or internal constraints on power holders that have, however unevenly, developed over the last 200 years. This is not about going back to 19th Century colonialism or further developing 20th Century Neoliberalism. Rather, this imagined future corresponds most closely to something like the western part of the Roman Empire in 500s and 600s: magnates with armed hordes swirling across ill-defined territorial boundaries, slaughtering and seizing resources, while production falls off a cliff and the standard of living of the mass of the population falls to unfathomably low levels." •Timothy Morton
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
merlinalbusg.bsky.social
Hm... this is no capitalism... this is an involution to barbarism... neobarbarism if you want. The abuse of the system to deprive the economic resources to the rest of the society. To "create value" of nothing... all this going to create a real medieval society 2.0 with trump as the new maga lord.
March 12, 2026 at 10:10 AM