The Simulated Devil’s Playground
“Camouflaging liminality as an escape route from marginality in today’s America has the sole purpose of reconciling the interests of billionaires with those of the marginalized sector of its population.”
Author: Bjarne Knausgard
We Need To Learn To Speak Again
“Why does it appear impossible to dispute obvious lies and falsehoods with simple and self-evident truths?”
The Genesis Of Governmentality And The Great Flood Of Arbitrariness
“At the end, it is down to a binary choice between two alternatives, neither one of which would have been found acceptable if they had been subjected to free (and/or intelligent) choice.”
The Gods Must Be Crazy: The Rise Of The Primitive Society Of The Future
Modernity in its later phase reads like mankind’s love affair with authority.
The Number Of Mass Killings Has Exceeded The Number Of Calendar Days
“Since WWII, the number of mass killings (defined as an idiosyncratic, not state-sanctioned, killing spree with multiple victims) has been growing exponentially at a rate of 5% every year. This means that every 20 years or so, the number of mass killings triples (1.0520 = 3).”
It Is The Eleventh Hour For White American Males
“A collateral damage of capitalism’s global triumph, beaten in just about any game that matters, even the ones they invented, they are joining the ranks of excess population facing a threat of irreversible social displacement and marginalization.”
A Decade Of Counterfactual Reality Or How To Quiet A Vampire Of History (15 September 2008, Ten Years Later)
“$7 trillion was the price that had to be paid for suspending the crushing force of gravity that would have otherwise caused the collapse of the entire capitalist system.”
Erectile Alchemy And Bubble Addiction
“However, despite their repeated failures, we still seem to be unable to shake off our bubble addiction.”
Complexity Curse: From Low Productivity To Social Fragmentation
“Politics has become a problem instead of a solution.”
The Seventh Summer: Cognitive Instability From Hendrix To Trump
“…history reminds us that there exists a greater proximity between laughable and dreadful than calmer times would admit.”