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Adding value to writing

by Seamus Sweeney

[ january 09 ]

Nothing guarantees artistic value

Brave New Worldviews

by Joe Palmer

[ january 09 ]

"Science and religion both assert the same thing: the Universe operates according to rules and that those rules can be discerned. Both science and religion are wrong. You cannot get to a place where you can make out the rules from there."

Noise in the Machine: the homogeneous chaos blues

by Jim Chaffee

[ january 09 ]

"This mushy-headed blather arises as an attempt to simulate science-talk to people inured to comic book encapsulation of the most complex ideas."

What's happening to "change"?

by Robert Philbin

[ january 09 ]

"We are waiting to see what the future will actually deliver. Of course, the team of rivals aren't rivals at all. Some of them, in fact, are part of the problem..."

The near and the far

by Colin Wilson

[ december 08 ]

The death of Romanticism "was the collapse of belief in the power of the human spirit to achieve new levels of freedom. The Industrial Revolution only made things worse, for it made the poets and artists feel that if this was what conquest was all about, then they preferred defeat." An excerpt from Wilson's forthcoming book, Mindforce: The Search for Power Consciousness.

On diffused complicity

by Joe Palmer

[ december 08 ]

"We are marking time, waiting for the Bush years to be over. Anything would be better than this legal theft, incompetent expertise, business embezzlement, potlatch politics, and sanctimonious hypocrisy."

The ekonomics of Fantasyland

by Jim Chaffee

[ october 08 ]

"In reality the US is not now a capitalist nation, at least not in the classical sense of the word capitalism. Since the time of Reagan (and perhaps nascent since WWII), the US has become a military-socialist nation, or as some call it to point out how this variant of socialism is mechanized, a military-Keynesian nation."

Northern Exposure

by Paul Rogat Loeb

[ september 08 ]

The Rovian politics of choosing Sarah Palin.

Enlightenment Reformation

by Joe Palmer

[ september 08 ]

"They all hold that scientism is truer than mysticism, mostly because it is harder to share your personal revelations than those you find through scientific procedures."

The beaver & the Fenian

by Joe Palmer

[ august 08 ]

"American hawks assumed that Canadian colonists would rise up and support the invading US armies as liberators, and that, as Jefferson famously assured the American public, conquering Canada would be 'a mere matter of marching.'"