Austin, TX: “What Austin does have is a lot of smart white people.”
Ballard’s Sextet: “…mannequins are human beings from whom all transitional time has been eroded, they have been reduced to the essence of their own geometries.”
Batshit Crazy America: ”Β It is the way ofΒ Homo sapiens that moral codes derive generally from the supervision of fathers in the upbringing of human young and, later on, as children develop into adults, these codes are archetypally re-enacted and enforced by men in the greater social matrix. Why? Because it requires a strong sense of boundaries. Boundaries are the essence of the ‘patriarchy.’ Remove men from the scene, or castrate them politically, and you are sure to end up with a problem knowing right from wrong. Weβre apparently subject now to the misrule of women with boundary problems who, for one reason or another, rebelled against Daddy and never got over it. Itβs a peculiar irony β so far unexplicated by the hierophants of social theory β that the more affluent and successful Daddy was, the more he was hated for it by his female offspring.”
How the IDF Weaponized Autism: “The program is now functioning for multiple purposes: it provides these recruits with a sense of belonging and normality by serving in the military as other youths do; it facilitates their entry into the job market; and it can generate very valuable intelligence.”
Iron and the Soul: “Yukio Mishima said that he could not entertain the idea of romance if he was not strong. Romance is such a strong and overwhelming passion, a weakened body cannot sustain it for long.”
Suspension of Belief — A Conspiracy Primary: “Schismogenesis is a term derived from the Greek words skhisma ‘cleft’ (borrowed into English as schism, ‘division into opposing factions’), and genesis, ‘generation, creation.’ The creation of a divide. Anthropologist and intelligence operative Gregory Bateson developed the concept while working for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, forerunner to the CIA), and coined the term to describe ‘progressive differentiation between social groups or individuals.'”
The Anti-Human Death Cult: “Buried under the detritus of a demoralized culture, aΒ lethargicΒ andΒ idioticΒ government, aΒ benightedΒ academia, an entrenched financial sector thatΒ destroysΒ more than it creates, and aΒ riggedΒ legal system that impedes more than it facilitates, the spiritus Americanus is all but dead. Indeed, most Americans have no historical memory that it ever existed. They do not know that once, not so long ago, we hadΒ The Right Stuff. And yet! Paralleling the literal sparks that hurled hundreds of tons of gleaming metal triumphantly into space are metaphorical sparks that illuminate a growing divide. The divide between life and death. On the one side is the excitement of meaningful adventure in pursuit of the good and the grand. The ambition to build, advance, create, explore, discover, colonize, learn, know, wonder, and inspire. On the other, anesthetized self-loathing and the desire to destroy, stop, impede, inhibit, abort, stultify, depress, conceal, obscure, benight, resent, and demoralize. The awesome and awe-inspiring versus the lamentable and dumb.”
We Must Become Chernobyl Wolves: “Itβs become popular in some circles to insist that the panoply of cascading failures set in motion by the Davos set prove that our global managers are evil masterminds who deliberately intend to cause the dismal outcomes their pet policies have so reliably brought about. A somewhat less popular opinion, though arguably a more accurate one, holds that global managers belong to a decadent aristocracy so sheltered from the consequences of its own actions and so caught up in a world of vapid abstractions that itβs a marvel they havenβt caused even worse disasters. Iβd like to suggest a third interpretation: our world is far too complex for global management to be a viable option.”