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 […]

Final Exam

When wondering why the universe exists, I have to ask this series of questions:
1.) Does there have to be a reason?/Can there be a reason?
2.) If so, is there a reason?
3.) If there is a reason, what is it?
We have to start with the first question, and depending on that answer we may […]

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 […]

Boredom is Counter-revolutionary.

“…I consider
the potential of thousands of people with recorders, portable and
stationary, messages passed along like signal drums, a parody of the
President’s speech up and down the balconies, in and out open windows,
through walls, over courtyards, taken up by barking dogs, muttering bums,
[…]

Detrimental Delineations of the Digital Dream Machine

“Without a doubt our epoch prefers the image to the thing, the copy to the original, the representation to the reality, appearance to being. What is sacred to it is only illusion. More than that, the sacred grows in its eyes to the extent that truth diminishes and illusion increases, to such an […]

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 […]

Breaking my foot off in the ass of relativism

There’s something to be said about the relativist agenda.
 I believe that the truth is not subjective. Beliefs are subjective. Not the truth. Things are one way and not another.
 ”Outside our heads there is freestanding reality. Only madmen and a scattering of constructivist philosophers doubt its existence.” - Edward O. Wilson
 When people say that science is […]

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 […]

The Value of Information

It would be a cliche to repeat the argument that, “Information wants to be free.” Instead, let’s analyze the concept of information. Is it born free, but everywhere in chains? No, it is produced by instruments and machines, recorded from every possible surface. But as soon as it is produced, it is put to work.
What […]