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

[ed. If anyone screams misogyny at this review I am going to scream and pull out half my beard, just read the bloody book; it's tedious to anyone with an adult attention span. Also if anyone screams hypocritical prudery, I'll tear out the rest of my beard and fling it at them. I'm not a [...]

[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 [...]

What cancer is there like globalism?

Please read the piece below, and consider it’s words with care. The author wishes to remain anonymous, but I can vouch for his integrity. He has had considerable opportunity to observe the developments spoken of herein.

What follows is a critical call, made at the eleventh hour. It would be [...]

“the average nerd’s fantasy woman behaves like a sex-starved player in her dealings with men. She is violent, vulgar, boorish, and ball-breaking. In other words, she is Lara Croft. The most obnoxious grrlpower stereotypes in the media are found in nerd-targeted media for a reason…” - ferdinand at In Mala Fide
“Just as most genetic mutations [...]

Remember when you were a kid, and you did something really naughty, your teachers used to always threaten you with:
“Now that’s going on your permanent record !”
Now here, I am dating myself a bit. I have no idea if teachers still say this, but the generation of schoolmarms, god bless their hearts, who first lay [...]

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 [...]

” Ideologies are of course just systematic ways of misunderstanding the world. They are the province of herd thinkers, people who have the answer before they’ve heard the question, and they always have the same answer. The more ardently liberal or conservative they are, the worse they are. Serious ones [...]

“..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 [...]

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