Category: Non Fiction
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Something Wicked This Way Came
In the early 2000s, something quietly but profoundly changed in the heart of corporate America. For decades, the most successful companies had been led by engineer-CEOs, individuals who had built their empires through a deep understanding of the technology that underpinned their industries. These leaders were problem solvers, innovators, and often, visionaries who understood the…
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Change the past tomorrow while living the future today
The mess we find ourselves in, this wretched apocalypse of climate chaos, is nothing short of a grandiose demonstration of market failure, a spectacle of capitalism’s absurdist tragedy. In the grim landscape of economic theory and environmental destruction, one might say that market failure is not just a malfunction; it is the defining characteristic of…
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Greta Thunberg and the Ownership of the Archetypal Trope
In the theater of contemporary ideological conflicts, Greta Thunberg stands as a striking figure who has provocatively assumed the role of the eco-crusader, a modern-day Joan of Arc or Lady of the Lake. Her critics, particularly those from conservative and anti-woke circles, perceive her not merely as an activist but as an encroachment upon a…
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Unresolved After 45,000 Years
Here’s a cosmic joke for the ages, a riddle wrapped in the absurdity of technological evolution: it’s nearly impossible to solve a need while constructing the very technology meant to fulfill it. We’re talking about a grand, sprawling farce that’s played out over the millennia—a never-ending cycle of futility where the answers always elude us.…
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Good Television
Cut-up chaos bleeds into the flickering tube. Network logos – pulsing, cancerous growths burrowing into your retinas. Feed. Consume. Obey. Good television, if such a thing can exist, crawls out of the muck only during brief, fetid lulls in the relentless scramble. A lull. A synonym for societal collapse, perhaps. But in the fetid emptiness,…
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The Hero’s Journey
Buckle up, chum, for a headfirst dive into the primordial soup of narrative. This hero’s journey you mention, it’s become a cultural shorthand, a marketing buzzword tossed around like a hacky frisbee at a PTA picnic. Folks brandy their screenplays and self-help manuals with it, a hero’s journey here, a hero’s journey there, without ever…
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Abstractions: Sunken Cthulhus
The grey boys are at it again, hijacking abstractions like cowboys wrangling shadows. War on terror? Too goddamn big to see the trigger finger on the machine. They paint these abstractions on billboards, pump them through the media static, a virus burrowing into the meat of our minds. The Control freaks love abstractions, man. Easier…
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Fiturbug
In the sun-baked wasteland of software development, where lines of code shimmer like mirages and deadlines loom like dust devils on the horizon, there exists a curious creature: the fiturbug. It ain’t quite a feature, that much is certain. None of that shiny, brochure-worthy functionality there. No, the fiturbug is the bastard offspring of a…
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It’s All One Long Movie
You flip the chrome switch, a hiss and hum, the screen blooms like a malformed god. Feed it data packets, a digital Eucharist, and the cathode cathedral flickers to life. But it’s all the same movie, man, a neverending reel of flickering phantoms projected through layers of chemical lies. Flip the script, man. Streaming ain’t…
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Marxism As Commodity
The proletariat screams, but their cries are muffled by the plush cushions of capitalist comfort. Marxism, once a revolutionary fist raised against the iron cage of capital, has become a trendy t-shirt slogan, a badge of rebellion ironically displayed on iPhones assembled in exploited factories. The critique of the bourgeoisie has been co-opted, repackaged, and…