Peace on earth and goodwill towards mankind.

From Is America Yearning for Fascism? The old political paradigm that serves the interests of the people who put us in this predicament will not be the paradigm that gets us out of this. I am a child of the South. Janet Napolitano tells me I need to be afraid of people who are labeled [...]

The world is insane.  One of the horrible things unleashed by random killers like John Patrick Bedell, Joe Stack, or Amy Bishop is that it defines insanity in terms of “killing people.”  Of course these people have all had a psychotic breakdown, but collectively the culture is having a psychotic break , which does not [...]

Another week, another lashing out at the government.  Though Bedell is dumbly reported as a right-wing teabagger, citing his manifesto, the manifesto was actually published in 2006, during the Bush presidency.  Basically, he’s a Zeitgeister: This seizure of the United States government by an international criminal conspiracy is a long-established reality. The murder of the [...]

Philip Heying, who I recently got in touch with again via a Facebook post about 2012, has a great post up on Reality Sandwich about his dispiriting stay in Kansas. I met him via a friend from Paris and we hung out a bit in New York. I remember a pretty strange birthday one year [...]

Two interesting interviews found recently.  One via Futurismic with the founder of Paypal and principle investor in Facebook who has a sci-fi vision of the future. Wired: What happens if we don’t get the growth everyone expects? Thiel: If it doesn’t happen, people will go bankrupt in retirement. There are systemic consequences, too. If we [...]

More on this later: Joe Stack’s Suicide Note – http://embeddedart.com/