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“Plastics!”
One word, kid… “Plastics!” Gene Wolfe in 1988, putting on his Engineer Hat with this rather prescient thought… Wolfe: There are more than two paths we can head down. I feel both optimistic and pessimistic about what we’ve been doing with technology. As you say, it has already been used to produce both wonderful and Continue reading
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The Precipice Year: 2024
I really don’t want to end up writing long form political posts all the time. In fact, I deeply resent having to spend so much time following politics, at all. I dream of an America with a boring, boring Politics. But, in this era of the ‘Industrial Disinformation Complex’, one kind of has to become Continue reading
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“Brother, can you Paradigm…”
I haven’t posted much music online, but I do seem to have been recording things, here and there. Hours of it. So here’s one of them. Noise. Drone. Shimmer. Wandering beat. Two-track, direct into the Tascam DP-008ex. Seasoned a little in Ableton Live. There’s a Neutron in there, somewhere. And an S-1. And some drummy Continue reading
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New England Townships
Some ‘Yankee’ wisdom (via de Tocqueville)… Each individual is therefore considered to be as enlightened, as virtuous, as strong as any of his fellows. Ok. This means that we can do whatever we want, right…? He obeys society, not at all because he is inferior to those who direct it, or less capable than another Continue reading
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John Adams, small-r ‘republican’…
A little quote I ran into from ~1776: The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of equal liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society, Continue reading
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