The belief that we will come up with the one idea that will save the species from pending demise is a cognitive bias. It presents a hypothetical grand solution as though to a simplistic problem while selectively disregarding the systemic collapse already underway that presents an ever-growing host of compounded problems that must now be …
Apply the post-truth methodology to a state’s primary media function—justifying war—and you can easily foresee Russia using a 100 megaton device against the US to ‘equalize’ the balance of power, and then simply maintaining that the US started a war. After all, truth is inaccessible in a post-truth environment. Like in a fundamentalist church, all …
We’re on the 40th floor of a high rise building. There is a fire alarm. We ignore it. Someone knocks at the door and says we must evacuate. We ignore that. Eventually, the power dies, and the room is getting hotter. We look out the windows. We see the lower floors are engulfed in flames …
When I was a kid, my first real interest in stories was horror, specifically Fortean horror, which (apart from a devotion to the lightweight TV form – represented by the prototypical Chris Carter’s X-Files inspiration “Kolchak, the Night Stalker” (1974-75), I pursued in the main through comic books. I favored the denser, more prose-laden double …
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At the semester’s first Vespers, the boys gathered around the sofas in the dormitory parlor, and I sat among the other unknowns – the incoming mid-year dropoffs – “new boys” as opposed to just “boys”, whose parents had decided to wash their hands early or late, and whose place it was now to find their …
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