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Monthly Archives: January 2016
The Origin of Planeville
The settlers of Planeville pulled a living from the south facing slope by planting apples trees on the bank, floated spruce and fir down the river to Jewet’s mill so the lumber could be sold in town, and scraped gardens … Continue reading
Prove How Smart You Are: Or, Are You Dumb Enough to Play?
There are a number of short mental exercises or games on Facebook which ask the casual smartphone user to pause in their scrolling through hundreds of posts about their friends in order to prove something about their intellect to the … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged Facebook, gaming, IQ, Richard Linklater, Slacker
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Donald Trump and the Conspiracy of Nonsense
The internet is so effective at the promulgation of conspiracy theories we almost think it might have been made for that purpose. Marshall McLuhan suggests that each of our technologies simply extend our own abilities, just as a spear extends … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, News, News of the World, Superstition
Tagged anti-vaccine, Birther, democrat, Donald Trump, George Bush, global climate change denier, Hillary Clinton, Justin Raimondo, nomination, presidency, republican, white house
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Wonderful World of Disney
When I was a child the opening credits of the Wonderful World of Disney TV show portrayed a world as far away as the moon. Rather appropriately, it seemed to my young mind, animated creatures shared the stage with live … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged Disney, Disneyland, Disneyworld, Fahrenheit 451, labour rights, Ray Bradbury, unions
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The Locked Room at the Top of the Stairs
What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create…a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody … Continue reading
Posted in Supernatural, Superstition
Tagged Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
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The Vast Edifice of Culture
The vast edifice that is culture is as fragile as a butterfly’s wings. It is as beautiful and as tenuous. Over the many centuries of struggle since we first began to bang rocks together we have tried to build something … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Peoples, Culture, History, Supernatural, Superstition
Tagged Supernatural, Superstition
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