Making the World a Little More Clear for Me and You
The world can be a complex, bewildering and scary thing to try to understand. But that is the aim of this largely open-source research and writing project, Empire and Economics. I’ve spent nearly two decades studying politics, history, economics and other world issues (so you don’t have to), with an aim to learn from the experts but not to speak to them. My objective is to take years of research, study, and knowledge and to communicate it in a way that is approachable and accessible to a wider audience of non-experts, or to put it more simply, I want to reach normal people who are busy with their lives but want to know more about the world around them.
There is a desperate need for this in this world. People increasingly feel isolated from their governments, from the mainstream media, they feel excluded or even antagonised by or resentful and distrusting toward academic institutions, research organizations, and any elite institutions or structures. It is not to say I don’t share a critical eye and dissenting view towards most of these institutions, but the communication and knowledge environment in modern society has often resulted in the rejection of all official and established sources of information in favour of embracing many or any ‘alternative’ sources and conspiratorial world views, which can often be even more distorting than any official propaganda channels.
This Project strives to enter the world of knowledge that exists between official sources and the cult-like conspiratorial movements, and to be able to communicate to those who want to know more, who want to try to understand the world more critically and through a clearer lens, but without abandoning rationality to embrace a religious-like worldview of conspiracy theory.
I embrace a critical approach to try to understand the world, critical of established institutions, systems, and ideologies (such as the State, nationalism, capitalism).