Tag: Control
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On Thinking
I’m an addict. But I’m not alone. Chances are you’re an addict as well, to some degree. It’s hard to avoid becoming an addict when you grow up ensconced in modern society. I’m talking about thinking, of course. Even though we are all so much more than our brains, 99% of us live mostly in…
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AotM #14: King Tut Day
Happy Tutankhamen Day! Go to a museum! But before some serious stuff, let’s start it off with BEARS!!! Despite what Stephen Colbert may say, Bears are OK in my book—after all, they’re part of the international coalition fighting the war on terror! But that’s not too surprising, since bears have been fighting for us since…
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The New Polytheism
In this day and age when so many Things can so easily be Capitalized—by which I mean they can be given lives of their own, anthropomorphized and imbued with meaning beyond their dictionary definition—then those very Things become forces unto themselves, to which we surrender our own Thought, Will, and Responsibility…Those Things become gods. Of…
