We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic...

What is it with these people charged with creating campaign slogans? They obviously reached the point of drunken desperation late into the wee hours to have come up with...

The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by...

I have touched on this before in several articles. But it seems to be an itch I can’t scratch. Ever have one of those? An itch you think you...

I'm not talking about Adolescence, I'm talking about the people talking about it. That might seem like a paper thin distinction, but it is an important one, in my...

I was at the ballet the other night, yes, the ballet. It was the Canadian Ballet Company’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Before the ballet started, the orchestra struck...

“You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution.” Seven Days in May (1964) Anyone who wants to put...

When I think about what the world will look like in the future, the models I fall back on are the typical settings we see in movies like Star...

‘Something’s wrong.’ So said Donald Trump, about the rising prevalence of autism in children. It was in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, on the 17th of December. It...

I was asking this question recently when the nightmare of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians greatly disturbed my reflections and took me in another writerly direction. Now I wish...

The world is collapsing, people are getting sick and dying, the culture is becoming morally corrupt, and society is slipping deeper into the muck. People are becoming crazier and...

Do not adjust your telescreen. This is not a test. It’s a state of emergency! A full-blown national state of emergency! Yes, that’s right, once again, we need to...

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest...

I have to admit, although it seems like I am a real freedom fighter screaming from the mountaintop, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” I am actually quite...

“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human...

Will it? I don’t think so. But that seems to be a foundational tenet of the sheep worldview. Interestingly, though, the sheep-set fear most things that are rather innocuous,...

Guess what time it is, boys and girls. Did you guess it? I’m pretty sure you did. That’s right, it’s time for the Big Switcheroo! It’s Morning in America...

Artificial Intelligence, AI, is such the “in” thing now. You just can’t get away from it. AI art, AI music, AI writing. It is everywhere. And let’s not forget...

“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to...

People are always correcting me when I use the term “elite” to describe that group of “people” (or maybe lizards) who are calling the shots and who created the...