Conspiracy Theorists, Non-Linear History, and James Bond

It is a new season of television on American networks. Honestly, it is a yearly period of time I could give two shits about, but something new has been brought to my attention that has gotten me thinking.
Now, don’t mistake me. The show in question is utter fucking trash. V, as the […]

Freeze Your Balls Off

If Eskimos have wars, I’ve never heard of them. Why is the standard of living in Norway better than in the United States of America? A question asked by George Carlin: How many rapes happen at the North Pole? Are the differences in the Southern U.S. and the Northern U.S. exclusively a result of history, […]

The Academia Waltz

Two separate and only tangentially related events recently brought to my attention the fact that apparently I speak and think in a predominantly “academic” cadence and style.
Recently, in a fit of desperation to find people I could converse about the incessant maelstrom of thoughts which inhabit my skull, I created a flier for a philosophy […]

The Tao of Hip

“They do not know it, but they are doing it.”
Karl Marx

I was speaking with an old friend this evening, and as we have always been wont to do, we began speaking of why we do the things that we do. He began to lament the fact that he does not know the core of […]

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Nietzsche was a pussy.
There, I said it.
For a guy who was one of the first people in history to have the balls to say “God is dead” he sure did espouse a lot of the same hopes for the future as religion does.
I mean, come on, his whole übermensch idea is such a crock of […]

C-Powell, do me one better or Respect, come get some

Recently, as though reason had entirely escaped our society as a whole, the general response to the accusations that presidential nominee Barack Obama was indeed a Muslim was that, no, he was in fact Christian and always had been. Of course, that has always been a readily available tidbit of data, but it took […]

Partying like its 2008, 1999, 1987, 1929, 1873

in a way all this is a relief.
in a way, this is a way for change.
the change that is an inevitable reaction to the failing of the international market created by the globalization of the last two decades may or may not be good for our ilk.
those who follow the these of illogical post operationalization.
perhaps, […]

fruit flies and free will

There’s an interesting news story from last year about fruit flies and free will that I found via The Pinocchio Theory blog in this post on theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman.
This is something I’d like to explore in great detail, but for now I just want to throw a few ideas out there. Basically, the study […]

Submitting to the Swarm

it has been well known and documented for sometime that the larger a group of humans is, the more likely they are to make rash, foolish, ill-informed decisions.
we are aiming to surpass 7 billion people on the planet by 2012.
if the internet is any measure, we’re on course to be completely unable to function within […]

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