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Risk and Extortion XVI; Hegelry as Immunizing Staatsräson
On the 20th of April 2025, the US-American News Agency NPR reported that the German State, through the Immigration Office in Berlin, is seeking to deport one US Citizen and… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XV: Mimetic Desire and Anxiety
As scapegoats are functional for upholding an Establishment that cannot justify the reality of its relationship with the Estate, and that is also the reason why most religions invoke scapegoats… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XIV: The Function of Scapegoats
René Girard‘s thesis on the function of scapegoats is rooted in his theory of mimetic desire, which suggests that human desires are not innate but imitated from others, leading to… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XIII: Strangers on the Estate
The appeal of right-wing politics lies in assuming that a claim to the right ethnic identity as having a claim to an Estate, as expressed by whatever political party speaks… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XII: Friend versus Foe
When confronted by someone deploying identity thinking, a few easy clues give the game away. Identity thinking always starts with identifying you. Do you condemn Hamas? Do you believe that… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion X: Exploring Ethno-Nationalism
Germany is one of the worst countries to live for people with a conscience. Right now, grand children of Nazis, such as anti-Semitismus czar Felix Klein (who likes to be… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion IX: The Kakistocratic Litmus Test
Both empirical scatology and critical eschatology can be useful methods to uncover, trace and map the causal relationships between extraction/abstraction and the rise of kakistocracy. As I have tried to… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion VIII: Scatology and Eschatology
It’s a dirty job but someone has got to do it (we care a lot) An anamnesis of kakistocracy requires an advanced scatological skill set. It is an empirical science… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion VII: Kleptocracy and Kakistocracy
The Joker and the Thief: Perhaps it is not surprising that Donald Trump has a background in real estate development; at least he knows something about the importance of estates.… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion VI: Cheap morality and the joys of MABRA
Motivated by wealth, power and appeal, the capitalist-imperialist-patriarchal Establishment is primarily engaged with controlling the modes of extraction and abstraction; that is with ensuring privileged access to resources such as… Read more.









