politics

  • 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

    A Fractal Culture of Crime
  • 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

    The Shakespeare Variation
  • 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

    The Physics of Steering
  • Reacting To Processes

    Long ago, when I was just a wee one, my parents divorced. Overall, I consider their divorce a good thing, but I cannot deny the impact it had on me and my siblings. In purely typical fashion, we reacted like… Continue reading

    Reacting To Processes
  • The Ritual For The Next Civilization

    Religious observance of the first civilization was simply paying reverence at a temple. Taking a moment, a break in the day, to slow and settle the mind and refocus. Religious observance of the second civilization is reciting a memorized prayer.… Continue reading

    The Ritual For The Next Civilization
  • The Trust Problem

    The number one purpose of religion is to build trust among people so they can communicate properly and work together. It is not wrong to make people earn our trust. Evolution has declared over and over again that it only… Continue reading