(this was in the LA Weekly. not many people read the LA Weekly. just about as many people as my blog.) — Henry Rollins: America’s Real Safety Net Is Drugs, Alcohol, Cheap Food and Free Porn THURSDAY, (more…)
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is out of date, completely wrong, & wildly ignorant of the privilege it espouses. Time to update it?
I’ve been looking for academic discourse regarding Maslow, and it doesn’t seem that there is a wide array of conversation in regards to the idea of Maslow’s Hierarchy born of white privilege? I am a tall (more…)
A New World of rationalism, religion, and extremism; Never the ‘tween shall meet.
Future of human race will depend on how we're able to deal w/extremism, cultism, irrationalism, mental illness,& the like.All tied together. — Uncle Fishbits (@UncleFishbits) April 17, 2015 Understand (more…)
The Frontier is Everywhere…. Carl Sagan on Wanderers, and we as Voyagers.
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Voyagers from Santiago Menghini on Vimeo.
It’s not about the right or left. It’s about extremism, and boy, you can’t get anyone talking about that.
It seems unbelievable to me that every time a SJW video goes viral, you have people on the right saying “SEE? The far left are the intolerant, want you to believe like they do; they are fascists”. Then (more…)
So what’s on the table with a President Trump?
Snowcrash, Neuromancer, Daemon and Freedom, Blade Runner / Do Android, Minority Report. All super non-fiction now. But is it doomsday? What do we know? What is Trump, what can we predict, and what is (more…)
A plea for our National Parks, President Trump.
I am inconsolable and can’t work. I am not afraid to admit I am crying as if I have lost my dearest friend. ****I am unabashedly asking all of you to share this.**** The Republicans are going to rip apart (more…)
Republican Platform 2016 regarding Public Land Use.
I started to read the Republican Platform, for what it’s worth. I think we all should. I never would have, but in my concern, my pop suggested we look at what it has to say. So I put my research here…. (more…)
Why Mars?
Carl Sagan said it best: https://vimeo.com/108650530 tl;dr – we’re finite, the earth is finite, and we’ve evolved to survive at all costs. It may look like an odd step, going to another planet in our (more…)
We will spread like a virus, slingshot across the depths of space time….
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/emdrive-news-rumors/ Spacecraft equipped with a reactionless drive could potentially make it to the moon in just a few hours, Mars in two to three months, and (more…)