I’m very thankful for the thoughtful emails I get. Most people want a handout (please review my mediocre, undistinguished, pathetic metal band) or want to attack me in the guise of posing questions to me (how can you claim you know anything when you don’t believe in anything?). The latter think their cleverness is tearing [...]
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Are you a misanthrope? (Vijay Prozak)
It’s tempting to identify with misanthropy. After all, the agents of the travesty on earth – the human species devolving into self-obsessed, destructive, thoughtless whores – are humans. However, after contemplating this topic for some time I have to say I’m not a misanthrope. First, I don’t exist via “anti” sentiments, such as hatred or [...]
The election? (Vijay Prozak)
The rhetoric flooding television is unbelievable; it makes us think this election was the beginning of the end of the world. “It’s in your hands!” they trumpeted. This neurotic paranoia filtered down through conversation, where any number of people berated me for voting Nader. “You’re going to let the evil empire just happen!” A friend [...]
Why did you name it ‘ANUS’? (Vijay Prozak)
My friends have a blast flacking me about my hidden life as an infotroll on the data stuporhighway. One common question is, “Why did you name it ANUS?” I have long observed that two worlds exist on earth, as they do in the theology of the Christian religion, where there’s this imperfect world contrasted by [...]
Lying and Sweden (Vijay Prozak)
When I’m out in society, I often lie to people. I don’t do it to build myself up, or for any material gain, but mainly because it’s funny and it gets them off my back. “Why do you order only vegetables?” is much easier answered by “I have AIDS and it doesn’t cause conflict with [...]
Isolation (Vijay Prozak)
When one is single, one must overcome one’s own intellectual and moral and spiritual isolation to branch toward the ultimate compassion: to see the world of another as “the” world for them, and thus to accept it and to wish for its success comingled with one’s own (to whatever varying degree the relationship or coupling [...]
The Internet is a brain disease (Vijay Prozak)
What happened to the Internet blew me away, not because it was swift and new, but because it was subtle and so familiar. First AOL got online and suddenly one had to justify bandwidth in terms of money; then political candidates and the news got online, and started “civilizing” the place; then fractiousness emerged between [...]
The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge (Jean-François Lyotard)
The Postmodern Condition (1979) publ. Manchester University Press, 1984. The First 5 Chapters of main body of work are reproduced here. 1. The Field: Knowledge in Computerised Societies Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known [...]
The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)
Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (Translation of Bhagavad-Gita by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood.) by Aldous Huxely. More than twenty-five centuries have passed since that which has been called the Perennial Philosophy was first committed to writing; and in the course of those centuries it has found expression, now partial, now complete, now in this form, [...]
Humanflood (Pentti Linkola)
Translated by Harri Heinonen and Michael Moynihan Introduction by Michael Moynihan Is Pentti Linkola posing the most dangerous thoughts mankind has ever considered? Or is he this planet’s only remaining voice of sanity? Living an ascetic existence as a fisherman in a remote rural region of his frigid homeland, the Finnish philosopher has pondered mankind’s [...]
