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Contrafacts #2
“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources, to bury them in the deep recesses of your consciousness where the light of day can’t reach. It’s a clandestine operation, like a back-alley deal in the dead of night, where you swap out the obvious for the obscure, blending fragments of thought into a cocktail that…
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The Art-Tech Paradox
Ah, the chicken-and-egg dilemma—a perfect lens through which to examine the interplay between art and technology. This dialectical entanglement mirrors our deepest ontological quandaries. Here, we confront the paradoxical nature of their relationship: Does art drive technological progress, or does technology facilitate new artistic expressions? This scenario is not merely a question of linear causality…
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Gravity’s Rainbow
In the shadowed realms of thermodynamics, where entropy’s whispers echo and the laws of nature weave their intricate tapestries, we encounter a parade of concepts that dance on the edge of information asymmetry:
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Money Should Be Free
Imagine a world where money flows like words through the airwaves, a filthy river of greenbacks coursing through every gutter and alley, seeping into the cracks of society, soaking the earth, drowning the parasites and the predators alike. A glorious torrent, unfettered by the iron bars of bank vaults, slipping past the sticky fingers of…
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Jesus Figures and the Marriage of High Testosterone + Neurodivergent
The relentless search for contemporary “Jesus figures” to deliver us from the oppressive grip of “the man” reveals a profound discontent with the existing ideological structure, one that is emblematic of our late capitalist condition. This can be interpreted as the collective’s desperate attempt to fill the void of the objet petit a—the unattainable object…
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Enlightenment
Enlightenment? The moment that word escapes your lips, it’s already too late—hell, the process was doomed the second you started groping for it. Enlightenment isn’t some neat package you can just unwrap with the right amount of meditation or overpriced retreats. No, it’s a sucker’s game, a rigged hustle that’s been racketized beyond recognition. It’s…
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Reverse Koan/Inverted Aphorisms
You’re deep in the throes of a typical day in this topsy-turvy carnival of madness we call life. There’s the chaos of the freeway, the cacophony of the news, and somewhere, a lunatic ranting about the virtues of conformity on a soapbox. And if you’ve ever try dabbled in the dark arts of irony or…
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IP Bloat and ZIRP
IP bloat and zero interest rates, my friends, are the twin nightmares of our modern entertainment and economic systems. The former, a grotesque carnival of stale franchises and soulless sequels, floods the market with an avalanche of derivative dreck, hoping to drown out the creaky echoes of its own mediocrity. The latter, zero interest rates,…
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Philosophy and Konratieff cycles
Konratieff cycles, also known as Kondratiev waves or long waves, are economic cycles lasting approximately 40 to 60 years, named after the Russian economist Nikolai Kondratieff. Kondratieff proposed that capitalist economies go through long-term cycles of boom and bust due to technological innovations, changes in infrastructure, and shifts in economic fundamentals. These cycles are often…
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Oppenheimer vs Von Braun
In a dimly lit room, two of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century—Wernher von Braun and J. Robert Oppenheimer—face each other across a table cluttered with papers, blueprints, and half-empty coffee cups. The atmosphere is thick with tension, each man’s legacy intertwined with the other’s in ways both obvious and deeply complex. Von…
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