Posts Tagged ‘Dystopia’

Observer

September 28, 2011Henry Baum No Comments »

First chapter of TABOTD begins with a father discovering his daughter doing porn online, as typifying how the world is melting down. There’s a piece on the New York Observer that seems pretty seminal in how porn’s being regarded – and surprising that it hasn’t gotten more attention. A mainstream writer for Vanity [...]

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What a Way to Go

March 23, 2011Henry Baum No Comments »

A documentary (which I haven’t seen) by the author of that letter about the Wayseer Manifesto:

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Charts

March 9, 2011Henry Baum No Comments »
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Mental Illness

January 18, 2011Henry Baum No Comments »

One of the things revealed by the Loughner story is the need to expand the definition of the term “mental illness.” When Rush Limbaugh says that “Jared Loughner has the support of the Democrat party” this isn’t just hyperbole, it’s the symptom of an illness. It takes a kind of sickness to come up with [...]

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Back

January 11, 2011Henry Baum No Comments »

If you’ve ever read this blog, you know I’ve been absent for a while.  I’ve been thinking about writing about Loughner, as the story has something to do with themes in the novel – dystopia, conspiracies, and even dreams.  But the reason I haven’t pulled it together to write about it is the same reason [...]

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PronDad

November 16, 2010Henry Baum 3 Comments »

Thanks to David Pecotic for alerting me to this story. TABOTD begins with a father discovering his daughter doing porn online – the apocalypse enters his family before it enters the world. I imagined this had to be happening a lot these days, and here’s proof, from a Reddit user who goes by [...]

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Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion

September 6, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

This lecture is good and depressing (and feels like being lectured to). But it has good observations, especially about the tyranny of celebrity.

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James Lee Manifesto

September 1, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

Manifesto of the Discovery building gunman. Pretty interesting stuff.  He’s a left-wing teabagger – except he’s also against “anchor babies.”  But then, he’s against babies in general.
James Lee Manifesto

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Pornland

June 30, 2010Henry Baum 10 Comments »

One issue I have yet to cover here is porn – partially because once you unleash the word “porn” on a blog, you’ll start to get thousands of unrelated – and frustrated – searches. The American Book of the Dead begins with a father discovering his daughter doing porn online. I am the [...]

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Death to the Leftists!

June 4, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

Neither of these are easy to watch, but necessary:

Rage Underground seems like something to watch.
Meanwhile, Palin says,
As far too many in the media, and in various governments, rush to condemn Israel, we must put the recent events off Israel’s coast into the right perspective. This “relief” convoy was not about humanitarian aid, as the [...]

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