Collateral Damage in the Trump Fantasy Worlds

Understanding 4chan in light of their role as youthful supporters of Trump and their slide into fascism and white supremacist realms is illuminating. There is a lot in this post that rings true. Completely self-focused losers as a social group links…

Wow, now I’m upset. Complexity is the killer and the full phase shift that we are in is the weapon that will pin us to the floor like a wiggling insect. Actually may have already pinned us to the floor and we simply refuse to recognize that our disorientation is the result of being upside down and firmly skewered. And this is obviously terminal if we…

I think there is more here than Apple missing the mark with the new iPad education program. First let me say that I primarily use an iPad for anything outside of my office. I don’t love it but I don’t love any of these things anymore as I’ve been in the industry for too many years. I once loved Apple but then discovered there was more to life than a…

Beyond Democracy

by Mike Meyer

So how do we get out of this mess? We all know the mess we are in. It is planet wide…

This is an excellent article that clearly identifies the problem and uses an understandable label. Coming from a rural fundamentalist background is really the only way to get a full understanding of the frightening reality of these systems of direct personal control. I’ve come to see these religions (Abrahamic and Hindu) as malignant and I don’t…

This is excellent work and is scary as hell. It would appear that, just as many of us feared, we’ve been raped, pillaged, and burned politically by a highly leveraged set of botnets manipulating twitter and other social media. I’ve thought about this for a day or so now, since first reading this, and it only gets worse. While I understand the limits…

Writing the New Planetary Narrative

The world of the twentieth century is ending and its systems are crumbling with the loss of trust…

Finding Earth 2

Identifying the Currents

by Mike Meyer