Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books.
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Noah sez, "An interview with the man who designed the ambient sound at Disney World, ensuring a constant experience rather than one that ends with the end of the ride.
It was initially a little uneven, with sound changing volumes depending on where you stood, so they used algorithms to position 15,... More.
Channel 4's documentary-style drama, The Execution of Gary Glitter, imagines an alternative Britain that reintroduces the death penalty. Celebrity sex offender Paul Gadd—AKA glam rock star Gary Glitter—is re-tried for his crimes and hanged. It's a story about the moral quandary of capi... More.
Lavie sez, "The Apex Book of World SF is the first anthology of SF/F/H stories from around the world, including Yang Ping's tale of Chinese hackers in a future game world, Aleksandar Ziljak's Men in Black meets Boogie Nights thriller and S.P. Somtow's classic examination of post-World War II Thaila... More.
Here's a great look at Pop Up Lunch: NYC, a work-in-progress from Ali Pulver, a grad student at Pulver. The idea is to create a bunch of portable, temporary eating surfaces that hungry New Yorkers can chow down from after buying street food from a wagon or cart.
Those of us who love eating stree... More.
Students” will get a working draft of book chapters (to be published in June by RandomHouse US and UK) as well as six weeks of discussion and interrogation of the issues within and beyond them. I’ll be doing some live video lectures, as well, and inviting participants to help devise ways of restoring bottom-up commerce and social exchange to a world that seems incapable of abandoning its faulty, top-down, disconnected way of extracting value from people.
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A more intesting course on the same page: "Running Your Own Cult"
@1, I saw that too.... This looks like a fun little corner of the internet!
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Sounds great ... like "Matrix Decoded"
To the extent that our energies have been trapped in the service of a select few, and we remain unaware of that entrapment, even unaware of what 'happiness' truly means, we are indeed in a pickle.
Needless to say, an "individual" dependent on the approval of countless others is not an "individual" in the sense Jung used the word.
A corporation is more akin to an amoeba than a human being. Oh yes, it has human blood flowing in it's veins. But it's not a native organism.
For they have no souls and can not be Excommunicated nor can they be hanged for treason...
still true 400 years later
Thinking about corporate dominance without including a Darwinian perspective (ie corporate discovery of advantageous social environment niches and competing to dominate them) would be a less than complete analysis. One way to battle corporations is to feed them as little as you possibly can, adopting a simple lifestyle and relying on corporate products as little as possible.
Looking forward to Dougs' book, he tends to have an interesting and thorough take on things.