To repeat: The only reason we need smart weapons is because we are too stupid to stop fighting wars.
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Smart Weapons, Dumb Wars (slight return)
Tag: irony
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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Missing Images on this Blog
If you find references to images which are missing, please comment on the post – I will tidy it up. Apologies for any inconvenience.
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Mobile Device Digital Detox ?
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…
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Impermanence: Tattoo Fascination
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.
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Galilean Irony
Historical ironies rarely possess such resonance…
Daedelus Kite 