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Aug 21, 2023Liked by Donna Rachel

Reminds me of spending a year learning system analysis using SSADM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_systems_analysis_and_design_method

before I left the course realising this analytical tool was created to convert people into 'entities' to be slotted into a logical system ( think Tron) or simply eliminated.

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If you know David Graeber, Donna, the author of the phrase "We are the 99%", an activist of the Occupy Wall Street movement, then you probably know his works. You may have missed the last one, since it came out only in 2021, after his untimely death in Sept 2020. It's called The Dawn: A New History of Humanity.

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Speaking of takers and taking "culture" too it seems to me that such a syndrome fits squarely within the parameters of the Wetiko disease or psychosis. This psychosis was first comprehensively described in the book by Jack Forbes titled Columbus and Other Cannibals.

The origins and nature of this collective psychosis has also been comprehensively described in three books by Paul Levy. The most recent one is introduced here:

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/undreaming-wetko-introduction

Check out his new essay too which describes the zombified nature of the common man (male & female)

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-comes-to-life

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