politics
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Predictable Arrogance
The Insider Traders expected Iran to do what they always do; turn the other cheek. Create some fear, move the markets a bit, and make a killing. You know… business as usual. But now, Iran has become the Tar Baby… Continue reading
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Building An American Culture
Applying context to one cornerstone of our society. ** I took some notes that have been clogging up my notebook for far too long and put them into Google Gemini, asking it to write an essay in the style of… Continue reading
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A Modern Dreyfus
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” by Sir Walter Scott, from his poem Marmion. Imagine a person who was set up to appear guilty. A patsy. Not set up to appear entirely guilty,… Continue reading
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A Fractal Culture of Crime
Just as teams of swindlers and thieves will harass and badger the elderly in order to confuse them, making them doubt their own senses. So to, will corporations and clandestine agencies conspire to keep an entire population off balance and… Continue reading
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The Shakespeare Variation
The rise and fall of communication (civilization). Imagine a typical group of teenagers hanging out on a street corner, or a ball field, or a shopping mall, and a friend of theirs approached from having been somewhere else all day.… Continue reading
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The Physics of Steering
Dystopia begins in our mind, regardless of our environment. When I was young, for a few years in a row, a chunk of my extended family would take a canoe trip down a small Connecticut river. A bunch of cousins… Continue reading
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