"To foster evil actions, to make them commonplace among all men, nothing is as powerful as money. It destroys cities, driving men from home. Money trains and twists the minds in worthy men, so they then undertake disgraceful acts. Money teaches men to live as scoundrels, familiar with every
Cerebral rape and pillage in a village of his choice Oil is creeping back into the American political lexicon, that ain’t good for elected officials. The US has long gone by the notion if some energy is good, more is better. Call it a wide held national delusion long
I had a great, wide ranging talk about technology with Yasha on Friday. He has it up his channel, Revolt Against AI. Enjoy
"Perhaps I may clarify the historical background of the present situation if I say that the first industrial revolution, the revolution of the “dark satanic mills,” was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery. There is no rate of pay at which a United States
“The mechanical brain does not secrete thought ‘as the liver does bile,’ as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can
Let's get electrified, Let's get electrified The past has gotta stop, the future's gotta rock The world is on fire, can I take you hire Z-U-L-U that's the way we spell ZULU The NYT ran a big Tech propaganda piece the other
A gallon of gas can’t be purchased anywhere for any amount of cash A couple weeks after American bombs started dropping on Iran, I received a text from a long ago colleague and old friend, Miss J. She wrote, “I think you should dust off that Energy/Oil slide
In these times of contention it's not my intention to make things plain It's the aim of existence to offer resistance to the flow of time I believe in the elixir of youth And I believe in the absolute truth I believe in, yes, I believe
Introductory Note - Unless otherwise noted, sources: Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty (1955), a collection of her writings from the 1930s; Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958); Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine (1970); Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1964). These are all thinkers and insights largely lost to
All ya gotta do is start I've been trying to put together a long piece on production as industrial fetish, but its distressingly slow. In these times of contention, as an always recovering news addict, my mind's a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading
Evgenia and Yasha put up the book talk we did recently in New York City. I enjoyed very much. Michelle Shocked led off the evening with two great songs; Steve Goodman's City of New Orleans and her song Pompeii. Michelle's on the road playing - highly
I just wanted to add a couple oil numbers that are important. The United States is not oil self-sufficient. We still import, using EIA numbers from 2023, take them for what you will, 8 million barrels a day. Only ten percent comes from the Persian Gulf, while half comes from