“It’s just a sweet sweet fantasy baby/ When I close my eyes you come and take me. It’s so deep in my daydreams But it’s just a sweet, sweet fantasy…” Fantasy, Mariah Carey The theme of digitization and the loss of human autonomy and meaning has been…
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“Everybody plays the fool, (Sometimes) There’s no exception to the rule (Listen Baby) It may be factual, it may be cruel (I ain’t lyin’) But everybody plays the fool… Everybody plays the fool, (Sometimes) They use your heart just like a tool, (Listen Baby) They never tell you…
“We’re in the endgame now.” —Dr. Strange In a previous piece, looking at new data emerging questioning dominant models of human origins, I explored the work of Thomas Kuhn on paradigm change in the realm of scientific disciplines. Kuhn called them revolutions in science. According to Kuhn there are…
[Editor's Note: Son of Korg...this is the first piece from new guest author RiffRaft. We're excited to have RiffRaft limitedly hanging out with us.] "...everyone was so positive of their having seen what they pretended to see, that there was no contradicting them without breach of friendship, or being…
This piece will explore the possibility of how a Universal Basic Income (UBI), an officially progressive wealth (re)distribution policy, could be deployed for dark, technocratic ends. Further, this piece will examine whether a UBI could actually function as a major fake out, to keep attention away from arguably much…