Civilization’s “Magnificent Bribe”
Lewis Mumford, in his prescient 1964 essay “Authoritarian and Democratic Technics,” warned of a quickly approaching day when all human autonomy would be suppressed or supplanted by modern centralized...
View ArticleOh Well, Orwell, I Guess You Were Right
There’s drones in the sky Cameras on the wall The Ministry of Truth Just paid us a call Someone’s been listening in Oh well, Orwell, I guess you were right. There’s guards on the wall To keep people...
View ArticleThe gang known as The State
Does wearing a T-shirt with the word “Marines” with a picture of two rifles underneath the word promote violence? An eighth-grade teacher at Genoa-Kingston Middle School in Illinois thinks so, but...
View ArticleJanus Christians and “The War Prayer”
“Everything in the Bible is written for us, but not to us.” ~ Laurence M. Vance, “Janus Christians” “Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle — be Thou near them!...
View ArticleThe Unholy Threesome: Part I – the Corrupt State
A new poll by The Economist/YouGov shows an overwhelming number of Americans (66%) label 2013 “a bad year.” No doubt, dark shadows cover the land. Consider the perpetual wars waged abroad, the...
View ArticleBlue Angels war propaganda and Thunder over Louisville
Blue Angels Fighter jets have made their annual return to the skies over Louisville and southern Indiana for Thunder Over Louisville, bringing with them not only the imposing rumble of blaring jet...
View ArticleFeral Jesus and the military recruiter
“[The philosopher] knows that the normal, natural state of men should be wisdom, for wisdom is nothing more than the vision of things as they are, the vision of the cosmos as it is in light of...
View ArticleU.S. hubris in response to Ebola
The U.S. government is dispaying its usual hubris in its response to the Ebola epidemic that has spread throughout the hot zone countries on the African continent. The strategy amounts to this:...
View ArticleFeral Jesus tells a parable of hypocrisy
Feral Jesus walked into an internet café where millenials and college students were superimposing the French flag over their social media profiles. He told them a parable. Once, a brutal,...
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