BRASH SELF-ASSURANCE BEATS OPEN-MINDED PATIENCE
Why is it that strident assholes who’re usually proven wrong in the end triumph time and time again in competition with intelligent nuanced decency? Merton Futon speculates about this strangely irrational truism.
DON’T CONFLATE ISLAMOPHOBIA WITH ANTI-ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS PRACTICE
The response to cultural “offences” in the name of Islam is generally “on message” in a tribal way but this tribal reaction to the Muslim world and its anti-Islam rhetoric is a bad choice. It’s only going to make things worse.
DON’T BE CONDITIONED BY PROPAGANDA – IT HIDES IN PLAIN SIGHT
In real-time conversations with teenagers studying politics and propaganda, Merton found himself trying to explain how important it was not to be conditioned by the media. This article is an attempt to distill what he was trying to say.
CONDITIONED DISASSOCIATION IS A SURRENDER BUT MAYBE A WISE ONE
This is a “long read” archetype as Agoston does his best to explain the contradictory reality of living a happy life with an aspirant truthful one, how the pragmatic logic says truth must suffer for happiness but the contradictory idealism must choose happiness as the victim of truth should the two collide.
HATE BREXIT? LOATHE TRUMP? WE REAP WHAT WE SOW
Thinking about the state of modern society and the self-sabotaging inertia driving the UK off the Brexit cliff, Laura uses her ‘long read’ article to try to explore the theme and shed some light on the “how, why and where” towards which we’re heading.
Journal: “tesst wghen wrirtinting witgot withou7t correctiongh he errorors”
Extracts from the first weeks of a detox journal kept throughout the summer of 2016.Read More
STONED SPECULATION ABOUT STRAIGHT LINES IN SPACETIME
Our Local Group of galaxies is falling towards the gravity-centre of Laniakea. The Milky Way is falling towards Andromeda. The Sun is falling towards the centre of our galaxy. The Earth is falling towards the centre of the Sun. Everything on our planet is falling towards the centre of the Earth. Is that why they call it falling in love? WOMWOMWOM.Read More
“RASPBERRIES AND A PLASTIC ROSE”
Ditty written on a September long ago, found again recently and given an appropriately obscure title. What do you think?Read More
PSYCHEDELIA – OPENING THE THIRD EYE – MEETING THE MACHINE ELVES
Personality is the iceberg tip of a multidimensional internal universe of the mind. The conscious tip doesn’t know much about what’s happening in the exponentially larger elsemind but psychedelic excitation – like a D.M.T. trip – brings tip and base into profound contact. Temporarily.
BUDDHA BEAUJOLAIS, JACOB’S ROOM and WISTFUL WYSTAN
Burning the candle at both ends doesn’t just shorten the candle’s life, it mutates the candle slowly into something grotesque; the more so because it’s still the same wax that once was so new and pristine and perfect.Read More
A PATHETIC APOLOGY FOR APATHETIC ANALOGY…
There’s nothing here but an apology for indulging apathy, taking the path of least resistance in the hope it’s some kind of therapy.Read More