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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

    A Modern Dreyfus

  • Who Are Our Heroes?

    When art reflects life, it is an exploration; an effort to understand and process. When life mimics art, 99.9% of the time it is a fraud being perpetrated to influence and manipulate. Continue reading

  • Mass Media Culture

    To perceive, but not to experience. Provoked to react to information without any experience to inform our reactions. This builds stress and anxiety, like a schizophrenic who cannot tell reality from fantasy… on a national scale. The greater the stress… Continue reading

  • Manufacturing The Need For An Alpha

    Mohandas Gandhi taught the world that social structures were dependent on the environment. The Alpha Pack social structure, or Dominance Hierarchy, that the British Empires was structured on depends on a hostile and violent environment. Without a hostile and violent… Continue reading

  • The Complex Con

    In this modern world of virtual reality, and mass and social medias, the art of the con has evolved. It is no longer a simple game of tricking a person out of their money. Today, hackers and identity thieves must… Continue reading

  • Art And Small Talk

    Small talk is like any other art. At one end of the spectrum is the purely superficial chat about the weather or sports just to pass the time. At the other end are chats that have layers of metaphor and… Continue reading