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 [...]

Fascinating reads, our sexuality is an extremely intimate thread in human history, in fact sex is the foundation of most human social institutions, the family itself is a unit whose main purpose is ensuring and perpetuating specific sexual arrangements.
Of all worldly pleasures and urges, sexual desire motivates in a half hidden, half seen, way that [...]

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, [...]

“..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 [...]

Benazir

dissolving

When walking in Melancholia, I tend to listen to Death In June’s NADA! on a repeat loop. Something about that record is kind of soothing to me.
NADA is, I’m convinced, one of the best Industrial and dark synth-pop records of the 80’s, and one of Death In June’s own masterpieces. Though the collaborations with Albin [...]

Quotes I found thought provoking
“Every fear is an unconfronted weakness.” - Kurt Saxon in the essay “Survival and the Paranoid” 1977
“Intellectual understanding in the strict sense is found at the highest pinnacle of human selfhood, what the philosophers call the “actual intellect.” When such understanding leaves the realm of pure intelligence and descends to the [...]

“Romantic love is much more, however, than the union of sexuality and affection, since this union itself requires a sublimation and refinement of soul. Nor is romantic love necessarily young love, nor adulterous love, nor love framed by war, nor even passionate love in the usual sense. Rather, it is that mode of love which [...]