IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HISTORY AND HISTORICAL FICTION?
These days it seems like the story you tell yourself means more than what’s true. Is this a problem? Isn’t it going to just get worse? Tamsin has a few thoughts on the subject.
These days it seems like the story you tell yourself means more than what’s true. Is this a problem? Isn’t it going to just get worse? Tamsin has a few thoughts on the subject.
An extract from a transcribed ‘thinking aloud’ recorded into otter.ai and put through ProWriting to make numbered points. And here is the output…Read More
Wexler takes aim at the elephant in the room – the lazy electorate of suckers – who time and time again trust their worst instincts to empower disingenuous sociopaths; politicians whose decisions, unsurprisingly, aren’t made in any of our best interests.
It’s hard to beat the experienced intuition of even the dumbest brain by conscious thinking unless the task is specifically difficult for unconscious parsing (are there any?). There is a much lower bandwidth in the necessary communications between the emergent conscious self and the diverse unconscious intelligences let alone consciousRead More
The green knight, as he often does, throws his hat in the ring with a no nonsense demystification of some pros and cons for the recent trend in separating hallucinogens and encouraging ‘responsible’ psychedelic experience (D.M.T. or psilocybin “magic” mushrooms).
Why has post-modernism taken hold so successfully, where did it come from and why does it continue to spread – despite the push-back and the warnings – a culture of mediocrity and reductive relativism that’s threatening to destroy centuries of Western thought and culture? We are absurdly accustomed to theRead More