#Algérie #الجزائر #Algeria These are my thoughts on the massive peaceful demonstrations in Algeria. The ground swells of revolution are always ignored at first by the official sources of information, those which serve official power. Not only in the country in which the revolution is stirring, then those around it. For no tyrants wish their […]
“All your base are belong to us,” and the theater is closed.
here’s a morning musing: the genius behind our system and way of life in the Anglosphere is this: the system is nearly completely revolution proof.Do you wonder why? Here’s why; Our societies utilize the most potent means of social control ever devised. Beyond a civic religion whose basic tenants are broadly agreed upon across the […]
A thought exercise on legal pot, and what it might be reasonable to do about it.
Imagine for a moment that marijuana will soon be completely legalized across the Anglosphere. Or, if not totally legalized, or at its consumption relatively deregulated. In 2018, with numerous medical marijuana bills and laws existing on the state level in the USA, and similar or even more sweeping laws in Canada, and the British Lib […]
When maps mislead and are cartoons of the territory.
Sometimes the real secret is there is no secret, at least not to those who know. Our worldviews could be based on facts that millions of people know are wrong, yet somehow that knowledge doesn’t impact our actual view of the world. Why do we think that we are somehow going up when we are […]