Macro-Futilist Comic 1: Listen, it’s tough in America, these days. Robert Putnam made a cottage industry out of noticing that…
Epithets for the Common Man
In John Dower’s brilliant, ground-breaking (don’t worry – the ground soon got covered back over) 1987 cultural study War Without…
The Violence of Human Social Reality
Humans dream in violence; humans think in violence. There is no reality to any human life that is not defined…
Gatherer-Hunters?
“What was it this time? Couldn’t hunt because one of the boys lost a club and you had to spend…
Questions for WordPress CEO-Guru Matt 2022, on being invited to pose Supplicatories to His Highness for his “State of the Word 2022”
Question 1. How would you plead to the charge that in co-founding a internet company that has been based throughout…
Who do You Want your Blog-Host to Be?
There are about five poles for any would-be blogger/writer/author/intellectual to have to connect with to establish a working blog-host score.…
“Sushi Flown in Daily from Hawaii,” Advertises Vermont Ski Resort
In Elizabeth Kolbert’s latest attempt to sum up the contours of the map of the Climatastrophe for the chattering classes…
History’s Greatest Trick
Less than a century ago, so much less that people still reading and clicking away today were alive during its…
Sayings of the Modern Macro-Futilist Movement: “Don’t Drink From a Poisoned Well”
There is no institution within the supersystem that was not nurtured at its source by violence and corruption, yet humans…
The Bureau of Right and Wrong Predictions – Lynton Caldwell, Part Two
Lynton Caldwell, Environment: A Challenge to Modern Society, 1970. “Humanity cannot afford to hazard the environmental basis of its welfare…