Since I seem to regularly attract people who seem to need to vent their hatred of “the public sector,” and since I regularly hear that nonsense about the Greek economic situation being due to everyone in the public sector receiving ridiculous amounts of money, I’d like to quickly state some …
Let me start by reiterating something that I said on Twitter and elsewhere on this blog: I will no longer waste my time getting into long conversations with unfriendly or aggressive individuals. My political and philosophical opinions can easily be found in my work, fiction and non-fiction alike, and I …
I appear to be a bit on the sick side – not quite sure yet what exactly, but I have an appointment with a specialist on Wednesday, and until then I’m going to have to relax a bit. I have lots of game news, some good and some bad (none …
The supposedly unthinkable is happening once again: people are rising up for freedom. In Tunisia and now in Egypt, people have had enough of poverty and oppression, and they’re doing something about it. Will they succeed immediately? Unknown. In Tunisia, the powers that be are trying to placate the people …
Look at this and tell me we’re not at war. The battle ahead is against us. The 1% want what little you and I have left. The question is: will you keep buying into the new Enemy of the Moment (the public sector, terrorists, Muslims, Greeks, Eurasia, Eastasia…) or will …
Lately I’ve been intensely disappointed with cyberpunk authors Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. The latter has enthusiastically retweeted the most inane pseudo-philosophical articles about Wikileaks, most of which entirely miss the point of the enterprise and speak only in clichés and/or falsehoods. The worst of all these was written by …
A dog starved at his master’s gate Predicts the ruin of the state. – William Blake In 2010 we saw human civilization take further steps towards it own destruction. We saw the rapid destruction of democratic rights: from the persecution of Wikileaks to the use of military law to stop …
I’m currently too busy making my Wikileaks Stories game to write a detailed post about my problems with feminism as an academic, political and philosophical movement. This is a very complicated topic to write about, primarily because people of all sorts are apt to translate “I am opposed to feminism” …
The poor fool who blew himself up in Sweden a couple of days ago apparently wrote this to the police: Now will your children, daughters and sisters die the same way our brothers and sisters die. The same useless, horrible way that leads only to more hatred and destruction and …
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer …
