December 2009
5 posts
A Toast to Jim Channon in 2010
All the text that follows is typed out of this scanned PDF copy of Jim Channon’s “First Earth Battalion” document.
THE FIRST EARTH BATTALION: “The Earth Battalion declares its primary alliegance to people and planet. You can become a part of that alliegance right where you are simply by allowing the exquisite human being inside to come out. When it’s...
Tracing Our Own Constellations
The Age of Horus offers ample employment opportunities in the field of demolition. The entire Enlightenment and the great edifice of Science Herself are more of an obstacle than a foundation for us now. Allowing our outdated paradigms, social systems and vested interests to crumble into decay is dangerous to pedestrians. We need to take them out in a systematic way, pretty much ASAP.
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Tomorrow's War and Tomorrow's War
JOE LIEBERMAN: “I was in Yemen in August. And we have a growing presence there, and we have to, of Special Operations, Green Berets, intelligence. We’re working well with the government of President Saleh there.
I leave you with this thought that somebody in our government said to me in the Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. Iraq was yesterday’s war. Afghanistan is...
Operations Research @ the Invisible College
What do we call ourselves in 2010? Do we need a new noun, or is it better that the Game remains nameless?
UFOlogy is a fallen science, and far too narrow a niche, besides. “Parapsychology” has been a mere epithet for decades. It’s the same problem that the cool kids have always had to face: anything we formalize gets co-opted and sold back to us…subverted into parody...
Marshall McLuhan: Operations Research Mentality
The following is typed out from “Understanding Me,”a compilation of Marshall McLuhan’s speeches and TV material. The first 2 paragraphs are from pages 29-30, and the rest is from page 238.
“In his Landmarks of Tomorrow, Peter F. Drucker has pointed to Operations Reserach as “organized ignorance.” It is a procedure in tackling problems which resembles the...