December 2010
13 posts
Economies of Scale and Moral Responsibility " A...
This question of accountability to whom: the shareholders or the world at large, begins the discussion of how we, as consumers, not only support the nefarious actions of corporations by our lust for resources, but also how we as the citizens of the western powers perpetuate the lasting effects of the colonial period by feigning ignorance in regards to corporate actions worldwide. Out of...
“Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.”
– Arthur Erickson
Utopian Promises
If one were to examine the etymological history of this word Utopia, one would find that it is actually derived from the combination of two Greek words: Ou, no or not + Topos, place= someplace, or noplace What or where is this Utopian promise? More than an actual place, Utopia is an ideological ideal, a perfectly controlled society, and Utopian promises are the abject realities of a ...
You Reap what you Sow
Stories like the twisted affairs of Rev Ted Haggard makes me think there may actually be a God, and he obviously has a fantastic sense of humor.
Mr. “Jesus know what you dun boy.” got outed by his crank supplyin’ man-whore. Seems like the good folks at Moral majority ‘R’ US aren’t looking that hard at the applications anymore. “Jones, 49, told ...
“A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some...”
– Hugh Sidey
The Satanic Panic
During the 1980s, many Americans— concerned community and church leaders, educators, experts, and parents— attributed a considerable bulk of society’s problems, especially those related to youth culture, to Satanism, specifically as it was spread via heavy metal. During the Satanic Panic, “Satanic” implied black masses, virgin sacrifices, goatfeet,...
“Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not...”
– Lord Acton
The Illusion of Democracy
Democracy, much like Socialism, was a good idea in theory but in practice it failed to reach the mark. In fact, it is very hard to find an actual democratic system functioning today. For the most part regimes are toppled, coups are staged and things go back to where they were before: Autocracies, Plutocracies and Authoritarian regimes masquerading as Democratic societies. Now before any of...
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you...”
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Meat Machines
Life, actual biological existence, is a series of intricate chemical and electrical reactions. Complex systems work in tandem to create the myriad functions required for locomotion, sentience and cognitive thought, and emotions are responses caused by elaborate chemical compounds in reaction to external stimuli. We are in fact intricately delicate and sophisticated machines that are fueled...
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till...”
– Plato quotes 342 BC
Manifesto of A Sonic Terrorist
We as the grandchildren of the, so-called “Age of Enlightenment” and the progeny of the information age, have our collective cultures constantly shaped by the mass media; a media, which is omnipresent, is all aspects of our lives. Resulting in an age where the manufacture of consent has become a forgone conclusion. Our attitudes, hopes, dreams, fears and desires have been force fed to us by...