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We worked together for one year in Japan at the same school. He lived in Hiyoshi, same as the tiny groupuscule from the Fellowship of Friends that I ran into during that year. He taught English, went to Temple University, and lived with a Japanese wife with whom he seemed to have a pretty [...]

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Naomi Klein’s set to release a new book, The Shock Doctrine, tying what we here would call psychological warfare or psy-ops to corporate and governmental interests in our current Spectacular Times. I’m glad to see this book coming out because I’ve been telling people that events like 9/11 are exploited to induce trance and [...]

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Meantime, in the world of the “Osama tapes” I recently replied to a comment thread on an atheist humanist rationalist site that addressed the text of the latest video. The analysis of the language was one fine angle, as far as it went, but the real interesting thing was those comments. Because being [...]

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The society whose modernization has reached the stage of the integrated spectacle is characterized by the combined effect of five principal features: incessant technological renewal; integration of state and economy; generalized secrecy; unanswerable lies; an eternal present.
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This is Called The Show
Just in time for the commemoration of 9/11, the “Day Everything Changed,” Osama Bin Laden has dropped his new hit video, entitled “I’m still the Bogeyman! Fear me!” The video includes the added bonus single, “If You Don’t attack Iran, then I’ve won! Muhwahahahahahahahhahaha!” This is according [...]

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Standing on the subway at two a.m., I see two movie posters side by side and I begin to sense the unsettling nature of the current zeitgeist. Call them Signs and Signifiers of the Spectacular Times.
I first saw the poster for this movie:

And to it’s right, I saw the poster for this one:

The tag [...]

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Not too long after discovering Freeman Fly, I found Kent Daniel Bentkowski’s work at The Kentroversy Papers. The first things I read that engaged my attention concerned education, since he cited educator John Taylor Gatto, a man whose research on and experience within the “educational” system in the U.S. has influenced me greatly. [...]

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Grok and grow silent.
We now present to you some conspiracy-themed, pseudo-Zen-Sufi (Zufi) Aphorisms written by cadeveo, with remembrance to Pir Robert Anton Wilson, and all the ancestors, whether of soul, spirit or blood…
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You came to this planet in a hurry. And still you hurry. Slow down and remember.
What did you come here for?
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If you want [...]

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This will be the last piece I do related to Virginia Tech for quite some time. As I said, I’ve been neglecting certain internal things and need to tend to them, as well as the duties of daily living and real-world connecting. But a few final things to consider. And that is [...]

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If you’ve been consuming the news about Virginia Tech in high saturation from the various, hypnotically-voiced mainstream media sources, you may already have reached the predictable conclusions that are expected of you. You may even already be suffering from compassion fatigue. But if you can step away for a moment and allow for [...]

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