Hope and Fear

The other night I was think­ing about fear (in case you’re won­der­ing, I do that instead of sleep­ing). See, I have these Socratic debates in my head, wherein I deter­mine which side of the debate sounds — on the whole — less mind-fuckingly insane to me, and then I refine it, and blend in the less crazy parts of …

Support Your Local Troll

When the Internet was first opened to the pub­lic in 1992, some per­sons con­cluded that this amaz­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­work may actu­ally start the process of end­ing the rule of tech­nocrats. Some used to think that it would even sup­plant the Pyramids as humanity’s great­est Wonder of the World, by allow­ing any­one, any­where, access to a …