Initium, or how I learned to love the Kali-Yuga

[ed. This is a provisional post, needing further editing and development. There are errors in grammar and fact - but the general effect should be gained, I'll get around to whittling this down later..]
Per my earlier posting a couple of quotes, from Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four [Amazon link] and the Club of Rome’s The First Global [...]

This is a hypothetical exercise. Do not misconstrue it. It’s a mental exercise fleshing out some controversial ideas, that are very open to criticism.
I am considering the idea that a formal greater Pashtunistan should be considered among geo-political thinkers.
The same with Kurdistan, for while I do not think turkey’s territorial integrity should be compromised, [...]

A few thoughts off the top of my head.
William S. Burroughs had interesting things to say on the idea of language being a virus from outer space.
It would be naive to take him at face value. Actually, it would verge on insanity.
It would be equally naive to simply assume he was being cute, provocative, or [...]

Caveat lector..
“..Truly created beings are meanings set up in images.
All who grasp this are among the people of discernment..”
Ibn Habib: al-Maghribi. Gnostics see from the heart, which is the intellect’s seat.
‘ahlil ‘ibar - people of discernment, people of discrimination.
I discriminate.
“..Smash the control images. Smash the control machine…”
William S. Burroughs: Gentleman Junkie? Slacker? Poet? [...]

“..I bit my tongue and stood in line
With not much to believe in
I bought into what I was sold
And ended up with nothing
This is not my idea of a good time ..”
- Garbage, “not my idea”
This started as a comment at Poetry of Flesh’s blog… but it got too long, and meandered in different [...]

[ed. just correcting some typos. 5/2/2010]
I think that the notion of a power elite still has some validity, but in our post-democratic Western societies, it’s of a much different nature than people think when they think of terms like “The Establishment” or “the Elite”
Establishments exist, Europeans typically have a more realistic understanding of this, the [...]

Watch a show like 1000 Ways to die and you will quickly notice that most of the horrible hellish deaths on the show are the result, frequently, of sheer stupidity.  The correct thing to do with a show like this is to learn from it. Do not do as these people have done, lest [...]

Metaphysically it is impossible to truly reign in hell.
The statement fits, whether you literally believe in hell or not, it works as a general analogy
I leave it to you, dear reader, to figure out why as fun exercise of intellection and ratiocination.
It was the late Charles le Gai Eaton who once quipped that men are [...]

So, I’m going to rant a bit. My ranting will be restrained, but I will rant.
Amusingly enough my CD changer just randomly plucked Kate Bush’s “Hammer Horror” and started playing it as I sat down to write this. The general… eh, let’s say ‘maniacal’.. nature of Kate bush’s music needs no * further comments. The [...]

Sometimes ideas can take on lives of their own, becoming transmittable memes, replicating themselves in a bewildering array of permutations.
So, when I was in high school, as a young tagger, my buddies and I all wondered “Who is Cool Disco Dan?”
Cool Disco Dan, whose name could be seen stretched along buildings, warehouses, signs, all along [...]