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Tale of Tiny Man with Scissors: How Abstract Thinking Became Concrete Prison

The machine is vibrating and dancing and humming a tune it likes. You can go as high as you can — but you can’t change the tune… Go go go, tiger.

If World Leaders Were Parents

If world leaders were parents, we would have a very strange selection: On one end of the spectrum, a crazy, militarized parent with a whip who beats his child any time he does something forbidden, and on the other end, a neurotic, passive aggressive parent who feeds the child too much chocolate to earn popularity, and secretly slips meds into his soup so that the child remains a little disoriented at all times, and needs daddy.

The funny thing, if either child were to rebel (against the whip, or against the soup meds), things would get very dramatic and ugly, very quickly.

Codependency…

Idioformat: The Plague, the Cholera, and the Joke

Corporations own everything. Everything in the world, including your value to society, is defined by their bottom line.

And each peasant cries alone, as somebody switches the TV to another channel.

Paving the Road to the Hospice: How Silicon Valley Destroys Freedom of Expression

Beware of cold-hearted, profit-seeking strangers preaching progress. We should have known what was going to happen next.

Political Narratives as Religions…. Why My Butt Hurts

The problem with today’s political discourse is that political narratives have become religions. Each individual storyline is no longer a storyline but a mini-dogma. The foundational postulates are tied to the deepest emotional core, to the very identity – but the...