Empty Reservoirs’s Reviews > The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism > Status Update

the market is gonna have a hard time self-regulating like an ecosystem if all of the ecosystems that allowed that market to exist collapse. so guess what could help prevent that.

i'm gonna find these notes in five years and i will be cringing so hard i can feel it already.

current maga conservatives wish for a return to idealized 50s family values, the ideologies they want to use to get there were developed by men in the 50s who wanted to create great change in their societies (or rlly just get rich off of disaster) remind me to come back to this idea when i have more available braincells and can actually try to make a point with that thought.

might as well have thrown a brain in a blender and then tried to reconstruct it. put the brain smoothie in a brain mold and freeze it. Say it's been reconstituted even when it starts to melt.

eminent monster would be a great band name if it wasn't rooted in electroshock torture. then again, I guess it's origins could make it an even better band name. depends on where you took it.

I should not be using goodreads to write out all the shit i'd usually scribble in the margins, but i gotta ask pointless questions to return to later, and this is a library book. liveblogging the disaster capitalism book to avoid writing a paper on mcr. what a world we live in.

Burger king at Guantanamo Bay

Do these people genuinely believe what they are doing is good for society?
How do they justify this shit? How the fuck do they achieve that level of cognitive dissonance? (working answers: greed, apathy, souls black as pitch)