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The Evils of Efficiency
People are the greatest treasure of great men. A fundamental feature of most ancient civilizations was the supreme value placed on good servants. When one empire conquered another, only the titular rival was killed or imprisoned, along with anyone who … Continue reading
Wikileaks and Clarity
As a card-carrying member of the lunatic fringe, I just wanted to gibber a little more about Wikileaks. Apparently Assange made a deal with Israel to let their government agents censor his document troves before publication. Whether they now keep … Continue reading
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Radical Honesty
The world isn’t ready for honesty. Sure, we like to think we prefer it, but the issue depends on our own internal willingness to be honest with ourselves. One of the pillars of Christian Mysticism is a radical commitment to … Continue reading
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Underground Internet and Global Patterns
Global patterns: It’s not about ultimate truth and reality, any more than a single model of human behavior can explain everything we observe. Detecting a global pattern is simply a way of modeling human behavior on a broad scope. I’m … Continue reading
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Righteous Survival in a Global Meltdown
Ambitious title for my post, no? So we had late yesterday (US time) the dreaded Wikileaks release of secret embassy traffic. I reiterate what I’ve said in the past: Notice who wasn’t embarrassed by this stuff. The major player in … Continue reading
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Vietnam by Another Name
We never left Vietnam, we just moved it around with us. The one war which proved so clearly the US military can utterly fail is now our trademark. Wherever TPTB choose to send our invading imperial troops, we turn it … Continue reading
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A Lesson in Righteous Cynicism: Noise (Updated)
Holy Cynicism: People are fallen and tend to do evil, even when you can’t justify saying they are evil. But most people recognize evil when they encounter it, provided they are paying attention. Evil is simply a word for injustice, … Continue reading
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TSA: Evil Wins Regardless of Outcome
I see the backlash is growing. Perhaps the citizens of the US will display sufficient fortitude to force a rollback. I am cynical and skeptical on this, but it could happen. The whole thing is a setup. There are range … Continue reading
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Yeah, I was a fan of Ray Bradbury’s fiction in my youth. Excellent story-teller, but these days his nightmare visions seem tame compared to the reality. I don’t pretend to know where it is all headed, only that it’s a … Continue reading
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Linear Folly
One of our most dangerous obsessions in the West is linear thinking. It works fine with computers and factual-logical processes, but humanity itself cannot be so handled. That we are capable of charting multiple paths for variables is not an … Continue reading
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