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Smart Weapons, Dumb Wars (slight return)

Post author By G
Post date Jul 27, 2022
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To repeat: The only reason we need smart weapons is because we are too stupid to stop fighting wars.

Tags conflict, dumb, history, irony, smart, stupid, technology, war, weapon

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Slavery

Post author By G
Post date Dec 3, 2019
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It is a beautiful, tragic irony that the most powerful symbol against slavery might be that of the stone slave, themselves eternally imprisoned in time and matter. There is something in this: the symbol creates and represents what it detests; minds (and cultures) create their own unwitting blind-spots in this way. Slavery is of course […]

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Mobile Device Digital Detox ?

Post author By G
Post date Jan 5, 2019
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You can not actually detox from digital hyper-connectivity using digital devices, but who would be willing to let the truth get in the way of a good business model…

Tags android, detox, Digital, digital detox, information, internet, irony, social media

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Impermanence: Tattoo Fascination

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Post date Nov 28, 2018
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Investment in inscribed permanence and attachment to continuing body or concept and symbol is the very thing which emphasises and reminds us of the ultimate and inevitable transience-into-disassembly-and-nonexistence of this vessel and mind.