The Post-Partisan Emporium

  the real dangers of the virtual life becoming rosencrantz and guildenstern and losing our way EL GATO MALO i recently came upon this tweet about the increasing prevalence of a sort of basic functional incomprehension and found it thought provoking. i think this idea can be extended and provide some useful insight into just how things get so out of control. first off, take a read. pay particular attention to the part about a previously unknown sort of ignorance. there’s going to be a quiz. leaving aside this baseless calumny against 10 year olds (as all the 10 year olds i knew could have given you chapter and verse on juptier and the milky way), this is a really interesting set of nested takes and it got me to thinking: indeed, much of childhood as i recall it was experiential. it lay in picking things up, interacting with them, exploring, climbing, riding, falling. it was all a bit of a mess, but it was an interactive mess full of stuff to figure out, games to invent, daily proto...

  The Just-Us System When the going gets batty... RADIO FAR SIDE A member of the NYC militia  saved a woman  from being robbed, then she turned on him. A member of the Houston militia  stopped a robbery  in a taqueria, and landed in front of a Grand Jury.  Indiana mall shooter  stopped by member of the militia. Off-duty border militiaman  kills Uvalde mass murderer , while cops drink coffee and calculate their pensions. Texas militiaman  boots 2 thieves  from his store. The US self-appointed overlords are in a desperate scramble to prevent the general public from waking up to the fact that We the People are the ultimate authority, not them. They have abrogated their offices, and so the power WE gave them reverts back to us, and that terrifies them. Somewhere along the way, the overlords managed to convince everyone that we were here to serve them. They made laws and forced us to comply with them, rather than us telling them which laws we...