The Binary Whole?
Fast and Loose The militarization of life requires a binary mind, one prepared by ignorance for fascism. Black and white. Good and Evil. Us and Them. Terrorism and Patriotism Mine (Not Yours). This is...
View ArticleThe Manufactured Ant
The hominid is not an ant. The Machine is modeled on Ants. Coded directions. Social organization requires hierarchy. Culture instructs us, directs us to pattern life “appropriately.” Managing the...
View ArticleEliminating Randomness
Big Brother? You know I’ve written against Minecraft in the near-past (and I promise I was being gentle in presenting my argument) and what follows, though only notes toward something, builds a bit...
View ArticleThe Chaos of Monoculture
I hope you had a nice Father’s Day. Mine was blessed with the gift of multiple cheeses…what more can you want besides perhaps beer? I’ve been thinking a bit more about “the mind of god/mind of man”...
View ArticleIt Plays You: Mingus on Electric Instruments
Selections from a Charles Mingus interview from February 1972, in Mingus Speaks, by John F. Goodman. I think it’s time that good musicians get rid of electric instruments, because a good musician...
View ArticleBuilding the Insanity In: Ex Machina
This is not a movie review. This is me thinking about empathy. Last night, lonely little ol’ me sat in a hotel room in Laramie, Wyomig (inauspiciously named for Jacques LaRamie, a French or...
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