It’s a deconstruction project, both sides of the battle. The powers that would be forever, busy tearing down all that went before, to pave the way for their grand illusion. The dreamers of truth, who know the face of tyranny firsthand now, and witness its collapse, one lie at…
Category: Media
Brain Wars
Dirty Tricksters ‘The thing about tricksters is that they inevitably try to trick you. They play dirty. They promise you the sun and the moon to get you excited, then deliver a cockroach by the name of “The Sun and the Moon,” and then look you straight in the eye…
Narrative Convergence
I have a new theory I will call narrative convergence. It was triggered by recent media coverage of three disparate events/issues, which demonstrate the convergence of competing narratives. Those under the spell of cognitive dissonance, by definition, will have no problem holding these contradictory premises without question, or denying them.…
Swipe This
Digital love song: Swipe the One You’re With Photoshopping the Brain ‘The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is perfect, the engineer is nobody. Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,—unteaches him.’ —Ralph Waldo Emerson This week I began upgrading my…