Materialist reductionist science is the bottom layer upon which our civilization is built. The outcome of materialism in philosophy will be the outcome of materialism in society. This is because all technology is embedded in the reductionist principle, and all the wisdom that has granted us phones, neural nets embedded in hard drives, skyscrapers and… Continue reading Giant Serpents Wriggling Through Thunderstorms in the Sky
Category: ESSAYS
An Essay on the Modern Problem of Living
As the old fears creep in, the tendrils of the mystical, the totally preserved anxieties of the ancient mystery religions transported into the present day, we question the foundations of our society. The pre-Christian terrors, the primeval fears of a world where we have all the complexity of raw phenomenon and experience, but with no… Continue reading An Essay on the Modern Problem of Living
DAMN: When Prophets Become Pessimists
Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN is a product of its times, for better or for worse. To Pimp a Butterfly was an epic, a relentless drama about internal struggle that culminated in rap’s ideal, Tupac Shakur, announcing blood, death and riots as America’s self-consuming future. Mortal Man, the final track from To Pimp a Butterfly, ends on… Continue reading DAMN: When Prophets Become Pessimists
Circling Around Chaos
So you’ve been wronged, screwed, born upside-down, the world is a pale shade of what it should be, and your own internal development is stagnating and festering like sitting water. You’re not wrong about any of this. The denial of this suffering is impossible in a world where responsibility exists. Responsibility for oneself implies loss.… Continue reading Circling Around Chaos
The Jobs Are Not Coming Back
Jobs are never coming back to the United States. The price of labor, with benefits and wages, is simply too high to compete with international sweatshops. Trump’s worship of business clashes directly with his protectionism. It is an incoherent worldview. Once Tesla’s self-driving cars become a reality, truck drivers will be the first out of… Continue reading The Jobs Are Not Coming Back
Trumpland: Flames and Renewal
The face of empire unmasked, the pomp and circumstance of our illusions rejected. There’s something to be said for the efficacy of the right versus the trepidation of the left. Obama, elected in 2008 with the most votes of any President ever, had a mandate. And yet, he played to the center of the political… Continue reading Trumpland: Flames and Renewal
“Bougie Knows Best” – The Crisis of Democracy and Subversion, Trump and Brexit
Liberals are the most self-destructive people on the planet. Knowing what makes their opposition tick, they continue to act so insufferably, so disingenuously moralizing from an upper-middle-class pedestal, that Trumpism has been able to masquerade as counterculture. The radical wings of social justice and the middling liberalism of The New York Times are united in… Continue reading “Bougie Knows Best” – The Crisis of Democracy and Subversion, Trump and Brexit
Hillary Clinton is an Abysmal Candidate
In just a few paragraphs I’m going to destroy this elitist, corporate-concocted, conniving political construction who bears the torch of Henry Kissinger, military globalism, ‘At-least-I’m-not-a-Republican’ domestic policy and the continuation of everything that is morally abject about Barack Obama’s presidency. Of course, I’m talking about Hillary Clinton. I write this in advance of all the… Continue reading Hillary Clinton is an Abysmal Candidate
Self-Censorship as a Virtuous Principle
Political correctness was a weapon of the religious right-wing in the 1990s, used to silence caustic and vulgar dissent like the comedy of Bill Hicks or George Carlin. First as tragedy, and then, in the 2010s, as farce, when the online left took up the lingual cleansing of society as a way to achieve ‘progress’.… Continue reading Self-Censorship as a Virtuous Principle
An Emotional Reponse to Nuclear Weapons & Climate Change, AKA The Death Drive feat. Noam Chomsky
Currently, the atomic Doomsday clock is set at 3 minutes to midnight. Noam Chomsky points this out every now and again, as he uses the metaphor of Minerva’s owl to describe his current reconnaissance over the soon-to-be-ruined world. Midnight is death. We are nearly there. Every wide-eyed loon hack of a prophet from Malachi to… Continue reading An Emotional Reponse to Nuclear Weapons & Climate Change, AKA The Death Drive feat. Noam Chomsky