The News these days can sometimes lead us to think the world is circling the toilet for the last time. The News is wrong. The Gods&Goddesses are still around, just as the ancient Greeks understood them. The Trump Event is Greek comedy&tragedy on a large scale. Everyone is always given enough rope with which to …
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In a World of too many lies, living our personal truth matters
Dr. Gaius Baltar, in a near-the-end-of-series scene, in TV’s Battlestar Galactica, addresses the assembled main cast players, to point out something obvious … its a speech/dialogue that fits our world with precision: GB: I see angels. I see angels in this very room. Now I may be mad, but that doesn’t mean I’m not right. …
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paying attention is useful
It is possible to look at the Trump Event, and intentionally place this noisy rite of passage in a more useful (for the understanding) context. Part of the problem is not so much Trump&Company, but rather the often too reactive responses. Passions are not helpful if they get in the Way of the Seeing. Human …
America, the Real
History is a stream of changes, whose outer appearance fails to reveal the mystery inherent. This stream has much life, some creatures who come and go, others more permanent features. Does a rock, or a fish, or a waterfall rule the course of the river? The stream of history has fibrous/spiraling currents, some more separate …
The A. I. Scam
Science and technology often move forwards&backwards at the same time. Frequently this shows up where S&T becomes a tool used by the War Machine (the Military Industrial Complex). Research money increases when a “weapon” is sought. Then there is the additional fact that wars use up weapons, so an endless supply is also a necessity. …
Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord
This is going to be a kind of silly story, but also a sensitive subject, as it concerns modern Israel and the Palestinians. There is a lot of religious feeling running around the middle East, and all manner of folk who lean in favor of very different outcomes mostly antagonistic to each other. Now some …
viral madness – NFL, Trump and Company
Some people take a kind of glee in the suffering of others. Perhaps they too have suffered, and so believe (falsely) that dragging others down into their depravity of not giving a shit is justified. The worse players in this game is the Media, who make money from spreading our discomforts, all the while ghoulishly …
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Economic and Social Rebellion the revolution will be on twitter
Fake Ancient Alien Theorist Foolishly Visits the Collective Imagination 