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 […]
Month: July 2010
Dreams, Memes, and the movie Inception. Erickson, slipping you a mickey, and dangerous dreams Part 2
I went to see the movie Inception with my buddy Khalid Bey, a veritable master of Memetics. The movie itself can be looked at from a memetic perspective, these are some idle unordered thoughts and musings on the matter. Often, true felicity lies in knowing what is important, when, and where, and to what degree. […]
Dreams, Memes, and the movie Inception. Foresight, and a story Part 1
“..In itself, the word “propaganda” has certain technical meanings which, like most things in this world, are “neither good nor bad but custom makes them so.” Modern propaganda is a consistent, enduring effort to create or shape events to influence the relations of the public to an enterprise, idea or group. This practice of creating […]
Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Current Situations
First things first – Authority and power compels submission. When submission is given willingly without coercion, or even if by coercion but under contractual terms of mutual advantage, in a transaction – let’s say my submission to your authority in exchange for this and that – by recognition of the authority submitted to, you could […]