You must kill your god. If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go. ~Joseph Campbell

"Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved--that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure." -Stanley Kubrick

The contradictions are sharpening.

October 8, 2026... "What if we could design materials with atomic-level precision? Today's nonlinear optical materials enable technologies like LiDAR and high-speed communications, but their performance is constrained by limited control over molecular sequence, orientation, and composition. Our Atomically Precise Molecules (APM) program aims to change that by developing programmable precision polymers that could unlock a new class of tailored materials with dramatically improved performance." DARPAtv / Atomically Precise Molecules (APM) youtu.be/cVFPz7CGvws?si=l6oY… via @YouTube

What kind of fuck ass country has multi generational school shooting survivor families

October 24, 1996... "And I think it's a mechanism that he's used for so long-- if you have absolutely no faith in life, you really don't see truth as a useful weapon." -John le Carré Charlie Rose / John le Carré charlierose.com/videos/13779

Ray Bradbury escribió en Fahrenheit 451: «Mi tío afirma que los arquitectos eliminaron los porches delanteros no por su aspecto, sino para evitar que la gente se sentara a conversar y balancearse. La desaparición de los porches sirvió para suprimir la reflexión y el diálogo. Ya no quedan jardines ni mecedoras; todo se ha vuelto incómodo. Han puesto a la gente en movimiento, siempre corriendo, sin tiempo para pensar».

David Graeber explains a bit about what a more free society would look like.

NEVER DOOM.

"I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools." -Ray Bradbury

Feels like I'm accessing repressed memories.

Ray Bradbury The Accidental Architect of your imagination

If you haven't read any Barry Hannah yet, run, don't walk, to read this novella or Airships

Techno Calvinism

Riiiiiiiight.

I always carry a copy of Gravity's Rainbow with me, so people can tell that I read Big Important Books.

I think it's time to revisit this clip. Firstly, Kaczyinski wasn’t even identified & captured until 1995-96, and Professor John G Trump died in 1985…so there is no way this conversation could have taken place. Secondly, since he so clearly talks about Kaczynski at the same time he is discussing Ai, it seems purposeful. And if you read these excerpts from Ted's manifesto, you can see why, particularly regarding present circumstances.