One begins to know the shifts in mood of one's beloved, by the way certain places on their bodies smell as they burn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwIFlX3bW9s I leave it burning and count the deadA jilted lover, a one time friendIt reeks of incestIt reeks of painErase my anguish, forget your name Can't see the futureI just break … Continue reading Questions a Pioneer Facing The Jungle Asks of Their Beloved, One’s Trusty Machete
Tag: philosophy
Who Shall Win This Battle of Duals? Exhaust the Vehicle… Or First the Fuel?
In Our Time (BBC 4) Discusses PLATO’S Gorgias Dialogue – Rhetoric Contends With Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2038&v=4TuX4lrRYGE&feature=emb_logo What is the nature of rhetoric? Does persuasion seek flattery and gratification of the audience, often at the cost of the truth? Plato, who experienced tyranny and the unjust death sentence of his teacher Socrates, examines in the GORGIAS dialogue whether those who seek to win arguments… risk losing their souls. And is PHILOSOPHY (literally – … Continue reading In Our Time (BBC 4) Discusses PLATO’S Gorgias Dialogue – Rhetoric Contends With Truth
How Computers Divorce Us From Humanity, And Disassociate The Knowing of Time and Death From Knowledge and Experience – Cyberpunk Philosophy Discourse from, Where Else, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’
Conan O’Brien and Jack White Talk Life, Upholstery, Anger, Tech, and A Catholic Discipline For Connection To the Sin of Artistic Creation in the World of Tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJgY9FtDLbs Conan is one of my great heroes, Jack White and the White Stripes are cool AF. This is a great conversation and I think it has some interesting points that overlap with some cyberpunk culture hit points. Check it out!
TIMOTHY LEARY & THE CODE OF THE ‘NEW BREED’ FROM HIPPIES TO CYBERPUNKS: IF > WHITE RABBIT \\ THEN > CHESHIRE GRIN (WELCOME TO THE FUTURE: WE’RE ALL MAD HERE)
Who was Timothy Leary? You may have heard the name, you may be familiar with his books, or maybe you are party to 1960’s counterculture movements already. KNOW YOU of the grinning LSD shaman and pop icon outlaw, who rode with the Beat generation, sang with the Beatles and Dylan, and tripped alongside the Diggers … Continue reading TIMOTHY LEARY & THE CODE OF THE ‘NEW BREED’ FROM HIPPIES TO CYBERPUNKS: IF > WHITE RABBIT \\ THEN > CHESHIRE GRIN (WELCOME TO THE FUTURE: WE’RE ALL MAD HERE)
Facebook’s Rebrand as ‘META’ Stakes an Obvious Claim on Controlling the Future of Reality Itself: What is Permitted in the Politics of STOPPING Corporate Control of The Known World
Millions of dead cops. A fire in your house that is not contained in a 'place' that cannot be put out. A perpetual war to keep alive art and books you don't want to be erased from the universe forever, by the only tools you have, your tiny tiny hands, and an imperfect memory, not … Continue reading Facebook’s Rebrand as ‘META’ Stakes an Obvious Claim on Controlling the Future of Reality Itself: What is Permitted in the Politics of STOPPING Corporate Control of The Known World
It is Youthful Impetuosity and Arrogance to Attack WHAT IS. One’s Great Task in Life is to Reconcile Oneself to Pain and the Coming of Death. The System Serves to Keep Us Coherent, And When It Dies, We Die With It, Joyously.
RELEASING another episode of KICKING OVER THE SHOW in the next day or two. I will discuss the film 'Ingrid Goes West' starring the inimitable Aubrey Plaza. It looks like the system is functioning as it was designed, to perpetuate entrenched power structures. We should be careening over the cliff in the months and years … Continue reading It is Youthful Impetuosity and Arrogance to Attack WHAT IS. One’s Great Task in Life is to Reconcile Oneself to Pain and the Coming of Death. The System Serves to Keep Us Coherent, And When It Dies, We Die With It, Joyously.
The Totalitarian Cliche: A Power Point DisRepresentation on the Politics of Enlightenment
A poetic comparison of the visions of male refusal of insignificance as portrayed by Jack in ‘Fight Club’ (1999) and Lester Burnham in ‘American Beauty’ (1999). I put the gun in my own mouth, a trick intended to fully thwart the onslaught of all accusations that I am not the chosen speaker of the dead. … Continue reading The Totalitarian Cliche: A Power Point DisRepresentation on the Politics of Enlightenment
The Haunted Typewriter 