In the modern age, simplifying one’s life can be defined in many ways. What is one simplifying? Is it melodrama between family members? Perhaps it’s reducing debt; or better, not chasing after that extra shiny gadget that will undoubtedly carry a high price tag in the form of interest financing for years to come? Maybe [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2009’
Bibles in schools: a non-issue
People are going to absolutely freak out about this, at least until someone points out to them why it’s hypocritical to do so: The school year is almost here, and if literature of the Bible is not already offered in your child’s school, it will be this fall. Books are a common sight in classrooms [...]
Non-plastic food storage solutions
So you’re worried about plastic decomposing under heat and leaching strange chemicals into your food? All I can say is: that’s perfectly reasonable. No sane “science” will tell us yea or nay on this one for another fifty years, or indeed ever, since we cannot mathematically isolate this factor, unless we find someone who literally [...]
Welcome to The Fall
One of the more poignant lyrics of the late 1990s: All of us were taken All that was is gone Of this information Shames us one and all Wheres my compensation? Watching others fall Welcome to the fall Everything is useless Nothing works at all Nothing ever matters Welcome to the fall It reflected a [...]
Unhappy meal exposes social reality
If it’s unpopular and makes us uncomfortable or inconvenienced, it isn’t going to fly. So, we form a colossal crowd of equal voices to assert antireality against truths that are difficult to accept. The truth? Industrial scale farming and food processing relies on cost cutting to keep ahead of competition. That means ever more units [...]
Climate change puts spotlight on overpopulation
We already know that increasing food production causes population growth. Volume of food production is like a piston. Habitat is the cylinder it slides into. The gas or fluid inside is the size of population. The piston goes up and population expands. Shove it down (or provide us expensive affluence) and our numbers contract. We [...]
George Sodini: What the media doesn’t want you to read
The story of George Sodini is sad but fascinating. I agree that memoirs and personal diaries of the supposedly deranged should not be removed from the web (as was done by Mr. Sodini’s web host) simply because he ended up randomly killing a bunch of people. He lived his life in silent torture, cursing the [...]
Life support for indolence
Here comes another major split between a responsible, productive demographic against an irresponsible collective seeking to distribute the impact of their own inconsideration and misfortunes. This is also another method of forcing equality by taking from the positives and redistributing to the negatives until the mutual dormancy of an orchestrated zero potential for everyone involved [...]
Social determinism is the new alchemy
When modern society treats all human populations as a uniform mass of generic hominids, we have secular universalism. Diverse value systems that do not fit this generic hominid fantasy are then invalidated as idiosyncracy, bad manners, superstition, even criminality. “Unlike Hobbes, Locke believed that natural law dictated that all human beings were fundamentally equal; he [...]
Entitlement
The great human fallacy is that of blaming the methods and circumstances in which we exist, and not our own choices. When we are given a golf club, and fail to hit a birdie, we claim the club is at fault. Do we have a genetic predisposition to hate golf clubs? No, but we run [...]