Month: December 2022
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Lords of Scarcity
The zero-interest rate era was the golden age of bullshit—a financial acid trip where the laws of physics, economics, and basic human decency went out the window. It was like some mad billionaire handed out Monopoly money at a rave and told everyone they could fly. And boy, did they try. Instead of building rockets…
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Free Speech and Network Design
Over the past few years, there has been a growing debate surrounding the concept of free speech in the digital age. Many argue that social media platforms and other online spaces have fundamentally changed the nature of public discourse, creating new challenges and opportunities for those who seek to express their views and opinions. However,…
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Web3: Bottleneck or Dead End
Web3, also known as the decentralized web, is an emerging technology that aims to provide a more secure, transparent, and decentralized internet. It is built on blockchain technology, which enables a decentralized network that is resistant to censorship and manipulation. Web3 promises to revolutionize the way we interact with the internet, but it still has…
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The Rate of Pasts Abandoned
The so-called “distributed futures” of Web3 are, at first glance, a messianic promise of decentralization, an illusory liberation from the bureaucratic chains of Web2. Yet, when observed closely, this very promise betrays itself as a fetishized spectacle of freedom—what Zizek might call a “decaffeinated future,” one where the appearance of innovation is stripped of its…
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Werner Herzog Movie: The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist: A Werner Herzog Film Logline: In 1977, a German brewery worker with a love for beer and a thirst for adventure takes a trip to San Francisco. There’s just one problem: he ends up in Bangor, Maine. This heartwarming comedy by Werner Herzog explores the world’s last lost tourist, Erwin Kreuz, and…
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Manufacturing Agnosis
This is precisely the obscene dialectic of ideology at its purest! Antistablishtan, much like Big Tobacco, thrives on the underside of belief—not a direct affirmation of an idea but the strategic injection of doubt to corrode the solidity of any competing narrative. It is not enough to sell a product; you must first create the…
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The New Turin Tests
It’s curious, isn’t it? The oblique complexity of Joyce, Deleuze, Faulkner, Proust, Burroughs, and Pynchon—their sprawling, fractured narratives and arcane syntaxes—once barriers to entry, now serve as the final measure of human intellect. They have ascended from their status as difficult, inaccessible tomes to become something more insidious: the Turing Test of the human mind.…
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Fear and Loathing in the Ministry of Truth
There is no greater sin in the Church of the Perpetual Grift than reading Orwell and understanding him. That would be heresy—worse than treason, worse than tax increases. No, the only proper way to digest 1984 is to rip it apart like a rabid dog tearing through a steak wrapped in government bonds, chewing up…
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Rules of the Game
There’s a sickness in the air. It smells like Axe body spray, fear, and poorly structured hedge funds. The streets of Wall Street are crawling with a new breed of mark: the finance bro. You know the type—high-and-tight haircut, teeth like polished marble, and a face that screams, Dad says I’m a winner. These goons…