Archive For The “Deep-Fried Dystopia” Category
The following item was originally posted by yours truly here a while back. Since it’s still topical and I still like the post, I’m republishing it in this space. In a Christmas-time post, I alluded to hyper-partisan people not having much tolerance for ambiguity. My theory is that such dullards can’t entertain — even in a brief, hypothetical […]
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- Tags: beliefs, Commercial Alert, discourse, dolts, Drew Westen, dullards, dumb, fools, jackals, Jaco Pastorious, Jaco Pastorius, Janeane Garofalo, Joni Mitchell, Keith Olbermann, music, politics, Rush Limbaugh, static, Whoopi Goldberg
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Wow. Lucy Steigerwald, an intern at Reason, has an interesting post up at their site about Mexican poet Javier Sicilia. A portion (emphases mine): In an interview with Yes! Magazine in July, Sicilia channels Camus and rather poetically diagnoses the problem at the heart of the rationale for the war on drugs. … Albert Camus spoke […]
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The great Daniel Kalder has a nice piece up at Ria Novosti (and cross-posted at When Falls the Coliseum). He gives some historical examples of those who thrived in the face of societal collapse, e.g. V.I. Lenin and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Writes Kalder: Thus we see two very different individuals who not only survived the major crises of […]
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- Tags: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, apocalypse, Daniel Kalder, dystopia, History, Joseph Stalin, modern times, Osama Bin Laden, Ria Novosti, Russia, Soviet Union, survival, Tsar, USSR, Vladimir Lenin
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“Insanity in individuals is something rare — but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Jim Goad has a good piece up at Taki’s Magazine called “A Bright Future For Pessimists.” He writes: “America is bleeding, the world smells blood, and things will only get worse. If you think otherwise, I think you’re […]
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- Tags: assholes, Barack Obama, blood, Bonnie and Clyde, crime, dogs, frightening, guns, intruders, Jim Goad, neighborhoods, Oregon, Portland, robberies, shotguns, thugs, Time-lapse, United States, Wisconsin State Fair
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