Next year, or maybe next Tuesday, you will be talking with someone. Maybe it’s your partner at home, or your un-mutable coworker Ralph from Accounting in the company’s smart meeting gallery, or Jerry at Wawa as you wait for that Shorti Italian with extra meat and cheese. Then they say something that buys your attention …
Author Archives: the bad take maker
American Horizon X
Note: In a 2018 post a on America’s future, I closed with: The American Horizon still persists, but daylight tires. It is now 2026. Guess what happened: The daylight passed out. Read that post for a shot of optimism before reading this chaser. Nothing will be done about the criminals in an empire of crime. …
And now an optimistic view from hell
Trump’s base grows every day, and every item of news that would make him look bad in a self-respecting society only works to his advantage. At least half of the country is addicted to substances, digital and traditional media outrage; aspirational esoterica; and/or conspiratorial thinking. Apophenia and scapegoating are almost national pastimes. As far as …
911 to Trump and Beyond
One of the under-acknowledged impacts of 911 is what it did to the general mental status of citizens in this country – at personal, collective, and institutional levels. It catalyzed a regression in America’s collective maturity and lowered the nation’s immunity to chicanery. Denial of trauma can bog-down grief. We have been in denial …
The Real President of Cyberspace
This is some sur-real Running Man stuff here…except in reverse, where we – the audience – are the runners, whether we know it or not. The question is: where are we running? Or, more importantly, to where should we run? Stay tuned!
The Psychopathy Incubator
For your viewing amusement via @VicBergerIV. (Context) Psychopathy is likely the result of an intermixing of genetic predispositions and early childhood experiences; however. the availability of Social Media reinforces distortions in self-assessment and deflates the empathic responses to human pain, anguish, and grief that accompany face-to-face presence. The whole world is being tugged into a …