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The Absurdity of Normal: Rethinking Our Lives Amid Ecological Collapse

Giving the current ecological disaster that is our economic paradigm, isn’t it absurd to continue doing what we, as individuals, are doing in any way? The question feels almost rhetorical at this point, yet the machinery of everyday life keeps turning, as though our routines were somehow immune to the unraveling of the biosphere. Every day, the news cycle delivers new data points on our planetary decline: record-breaking heat waves, mass species extinction, collapsing coral reefs, soil degradation, plastic-choked oceans, and increasingly chaotic weather patterns. And yet, we wake up, commute, buy, consume, and scroll, as if the old world order were still intact. The absurdity is not in the question—it’s in our collective response.

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The Icy Stage of the Conspiratocracy: Trump, Putin, and the Theater of Hollow Thunder

It was beneath the cold, translucent dome of Alaskan sky that the two performers—each bloated on borrowed mythologies and slathered in the makeup of statesmanship—entered stage left. One oozed in orange defiance, a man as familiar with reality as a child is with nuclear protocol; the other, stewed in vodka and historical grievance, played his role with the grave, twitching pride of a bear poked once too often.