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Philosophy
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The Gnomes Of Uncertainty
The Gnomes Of Uncertainty
Speculations on Science, Logic, Paradox, Neo-Gnostic
Exploration, Psychotropics, Art, Physics, Shamanism, Art, Cultural and Political
Evolution, Economics, Religion, Human Survival and Evolution, Love, Empathy,
Ethics, Law, Healing and the Pursuit of the Human Portential in the Third
Millennium.
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Politics
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Response Knee Jerk Jingoism
Exploding Via E-Mail
Terrorist Attack Of 9/11/2001
This paper is an extract based on my response to an assault via an avalanche of
email by knee jerk jingoists and the intellectually impaired in reaction to the
9/11 attack. Based on the concept that the triumph of stupidity requires only
that good men do nothing, I could not let such egregious and appalling assaults
on common sense and common decency stand.
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Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant!
Yesterday Donald Rumsfeld announced the next target of Imperial American Fascism.
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THE TRIUMPH OF STUPIDITY OVER DEMOCRACY
Stupidity is the single greatest political force ever devised by human kind. It is the single greatest
threat to democracy of any kind, flavor or degree. It has been lovingly
cultivated since the election of Ronal Reagan.
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ADDITONAL TOUGHTS, 1 FEB 2003
to
THE TRIUMPH OF STUPIDITY OVER DEMOCRACY
The Fall and Decline of the American Empire as Engineered by the Bush Imperium
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ECONOMIC TERRORISM
Economics is less a science than a public relations and
propaganda tool. It is useful chiefly to persuade the poor that they should be
grateful to be the cattle of the rich. It is an argument more or less in the
same vein as Aristotle's view that most men are naturally born to be slaves.
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Greetings From
The Last Few Days of Peace
In My Lifetime
The only axis of evil on planet earth currently occupies the White House.
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On Speaking Out
It has been long established that the citizens of a democracy
not only have the right to speak out strongly, especially on issues that matter,
but have the responsibility to do so or suffer the loss of freedom and democracy.
If anyone on the planet does not like it,
they can cease to think or stop listening. That is a reasonable response. In
fact, W Bush is never allowed in my ear, thanks to the Mute button.
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ON BUSH’S INVITATION TO THE TERRORISTSn
A Rational Assessment Of The Human Condition
And A Call For Intelligent Action
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The 2004 Electorate and Voting Strategies
There is little doubt that the majority of the voting population is simply incapable
of intellectually grappling with the issues. At best, they skim the surface for
some easy, token issue, contribute $15 and move on.
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Discussion of Instant Runoff Voting Systems
& Fraud Resistant Voting
There are at least two remedies necessary to reinstate a
semblance of democracy in the USA. The first is finance reform, that is the
absolute removal of wealth in any form from the electoral process. This
includes the bankable currency of fame, notoriety and celebrity. Along with the
separation of church and state a democratic voter residing any place on the
planet should have the right to a well regulated economy, the separation of
state and markets, and the complete disassociation of wealth from determining
election results.
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Why Bush Loves West Wing
America tuned in hoping for another light-hearted romp through inconsequential smoke
screen issues. No one seems at all interested in why one of the icons of intelligent progressive liberalism,
West Wing, is on NBC, the most conservative and right wing of the networks.
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Preaching To The Choir
It is a clear sign of the breakdown of democratic dialog and of useful debate
when there is no option left but to preach to the choir.
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Economics
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In Response To An Self Styled Anarchist
Convincing a population committed to entrenched stupidity is simply so much
effort wasted; and, for no particular good effect in stopping, or
even slowing down the American slide into oblivion, or worse, the possible extinction
of the species.
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Free Markets Are Slave Markets
All free market economic systems are based on slavery.
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PREDATION AS A CULTURAL/ECONOMIC MODEL
The latest attempt to camouflage human cannibalism comes under the newly emerging sciences
of complexity. Research institutions such as the Santa Fe Institute are funded
largely by the corporate world, especially financial institutions such as
banks, who have a vested interest in proving that not only is economic
predation a fundamental law of nature, but that there is no higher cultural
status for humanity to evolve into.
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Reaganomics & The Free Market End Game
Beginning with the depression and Word War II the U.S. economy had become
essentially a war economy. The means of production
gravitated away from products and services oriented toward human use and needs
to the production of war materials. Incidentally, this also includes the
migration of wealth away from cultural arenas such as the arts, and human need
arenas such as health and education. The reason was obvious: the bureaucratic
environment of graft guaranteed that profits went far beyond even unreasonable
expectations. Inferior military products became the norm, manufactured only because
they occasionally needed to be proven effective, and since the military product
was susceptible to the constant changes in technology, the products could safely
be scrapped and reinvented on a constant basis.
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Art
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The Distinction Between Art & Craft
The primary distinction between art and craft is who makes the assignment.
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Any Idiot With A Pen
I have been recently informed that collectors, art dealers,
critics and curators are not interested in works of art that have been
generated digitally on an inkjet printer, because “any idiot with a digital
camera and an inkjet printer is an artist.” The implication is that up until
now the expense of owning a darkroom and the skills required to produce a print
separated the dilettantes from the true artists, and all that is necessary to
qualify as collectible art is to possess enough superfluous wealth to buy into
an elite defined only by expensive tools and semi-arcane technologies.
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