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Present Times Look a Lot Like 1984

30 Jan 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LyonCoDad

"Remember the classic novel, 1984, written by George Orwell? I read it in high school. It was about a totalitarian government that went so far as to monitor every move of its citizens, force them to profess things they knew weren't true, and in gener...

Has Absurdity Become the Fabric of Our Lives?

30 Jan 2021 4 minute read 1 comment LyonCoDad

"The dictionary defines absurd as “completely unreasonable or illogical; ridiculous.” We are living in an era of the absurd. If you doubt this, just check out the internet or mainstream news media. (Sara Palin has very correctly referred to it as the...

"Truth, justice, and the American way"

28 Jan 2021 4 minute read 0 comments LyonCoDad

"Do you remember the old Superman T.V. show from the early days of television? In the introduction to the show, Superman was said to fight for "truth, justice, and the American way." Life sure seemed a lot easier back then. We at least knew what we w...

Just a thought 2

26 Jan 2021 1 minute read 3 comments Karlo Kolumno

Modern man thinks he is enlightened, but it is by no means. Rather, most people today know far less about the interrelationships in their world than was the case before industrialization, for example. People just made themselves comfortable in democr...

Just a thaught

26 Jan 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Karlo Kolumno

Understanding the world in its entirety is hardly possible, even for an intelligent person. But that is not what this is supposed to be about. Most people get an idea of the world. This worldview is shaped by various influences, upbringing, cultural...

Why do we bother with photographs

26 Jan 2021 2 minute read 0 comments rah

Photographs are not as important as they were in the past. Maybe with the digital revolution photographs are much better than they were before, but they are definitely not as precious to us as they used to be. In the past we used to take photos on o...

Email Spoofing: what it is and how to defend yourself

25 Jan 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Arkemmus

A friend of mine recently received an email whose text was something like this:   "Hello! As you may have noticed, I sent you an email from your account. This means I have full access to your account. I've been watching you for a few months. The fac...

Equipping and Building Resilience

24 Jan 2021 9 minute read 0 comments rah

Over the course of the last week I have shared a couple of articles connected with bullying. The first article raised concerns connected with cyber-bullying and the second focused mainly on providing a response and making some suggestions as to  what...

The Five Stages of Collapse According to Dmitry Orlov

23 Jan 2021 5 minute read 0 comments rhyzom

Some of you may be familiar with Dmitry Orlov. He's one of the immanent collapse doomsday sayers, like Joseph Tainter and some of the Cliodynamics people. Engineer by education and WITH a sense of humor (as you'll notice in his excellent talk here):...

An Interesting Publish0x Phenomenon

23 Jan 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Cje95

As someone who is pretty analytical being able to see my article statistics is really nice. What I love about the Publish0x platform is the amount of detail that I can see them in. When looking at my 30 day chart several things are very apparent.   I...