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. […]
Philosophy
Tips from a Consultant on the edge
Things I’ve learned over the last 15 years of consulting in fields as diverse as Business IT, Network analysis, Importing, and Product liquidation, from Universities, to Small Businesses, to mega corporations, to sketchy scrap metal and demo companies owned by Roma who walk around talking about vague ties to Russian Mafya (Roma = Gypsies – […]
Rainy day quotations on Sunday the second of May 2010
” 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 get bitter and start lying […]
elites and expert classes in post-Democratic societies
[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 […]