Out of Balance
Is it true, that we're all deranged?
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It’s not just AI It’s fruitful to go back to such figures as Lewis Mumford, who wrote on the history of technology and whose book The Myth of the Machine informs current conceptions of the psychosocial dynamics of contemporary technology. Over fifty years ago he warned against a convergence of science, economics, and technics buttressed…
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Joseph de Weck’s case against AI There is some hope still, isn’t there? As long as there are people out there like Joseph de Weck who wrote a piece for The Guardian dated Dec. 26. “This summer, I found myself battling through traffic in the sweltering streets of Marseille. At a crossing, my friend in…
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Blang spot prissy bulge! Brain atrophy. Really a brain trophy, but these naysayers, “the nattering Nabobs of negativity”, just have a bad attitude. What’s so bad about feeling good? You get them (the smartphone elements) installed right into the cerebrum while the host is still transubstantiating. Very messy business, the Christ-body starts spilling out of…
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Assessment of Democratic Decline Released Oct. 16, 2025 by The Steady State, a group of more than 340 US former senior national security professionals. “Our membership includes former officials from the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of State, Department of Defense [sic] and Department of Homeland Security. Drawing on deep expertise across…
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I would delimit the bounds of this era with the appearance of Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha (1680) and its subsequent refutation by John Locke in the Two Treatises of Civil Government, and its end by the present moment. “The purpose of Locke was to justify the English Revolution of 1688. The Two Treatises of Government, which…
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Regarding an article which appeared in the Guardian, 17 Sept 25 Maybe because there isn’t one. I ask the read to refer to my recent set of articles on political liberalism. On pages 2 and 3 I reference the legal opinion concerning this matter. The original discussion is contained Robert G. Dixon, Jr., Assistant Attorney…
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Days of Future Passed
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Going over my copy of Duchamp by Calvin Tomkins recently I came across something peculiar: A reference and attendant commentary by Tomkins to an episode in Duchamp’s life that struck me as singularly obtuse. Tomkins’ account is found on p. 306 of the hardcover edition in the context of Duchamp’s restoration of the Large Glass,…
Out of Balance 