tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67583602251200032152024-03-18T16:59:16.710-04:00Farmers Letters<center><i>“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”</i></center>
―Philip Freneau-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comBlogger2942125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-80460536585407476492024-03-18T12:04:00.005-04:002024-03-18T12:05:37.237-04:00BBQ Anyone?SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, "Haiti’s Proud Boys"If we measure a failed state by the cracks in the edifice of its power, reflected in brewing ideological civil wars, deadlocked assemblies, and increasingly insecure public spaces, we must recognize that the United States is not so unlike Haiti. Both have given rise to violent gangs with political ambitions.LJUBLJANA – The way things are going in Haiti, violent -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-30053097057942118662024-03-17T13:04:00.003-04:002024-03-17T13:45:31.187-04:00Reality or Virtuality?Slavoj Zizek, "War as a way of seeing: Passions of the Real, Passions of Semblance" (excerpt)[...]These last two examples indicate the fundamental paradox of the ‘passion for the Real’: it culminates in its apparent opposite, in a theatrical spectacle – from the Stalinist show trials to spectacular terrorist acts.2 If, then, the passion for the Real ends up in the pure semblance of the -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-78820427337103259802024-03-16T15:17:00.007-04:002024-03-16T15:24:57.361-04:00Midsommarcorsepresentblog, "Midsommar and Temporality" One strand runniig through Midsommar concerns the use and understanding of temporality. Midsommar is already, even for those who have yet to see it, a film situated in a historical context thanks to its acknowledgement of The Wicker Man as a cinematic and spiritual forebear. It is consciously locating itself in a folk horror lineage and so it -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-90171670519812435422024-03-15T14:51:00.003-04:002024-03-15T14:51:40.680-04:00Slavoj Zizek/ Piers Morgan Interview-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-31407356567679462472024-03-15T13:42:00.004-04:002024-03-15T13:42:35.434-04:00On Making a Meme Make Sense... h/t original meme - Woodsterman-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-64142797704332436382024-03-15T12:43:00.007-04:002024-03-15T12:58:18.590-04:00Dune and AI - How Do You Spell C-O-N-T-R-O-L?Dune - from the D. Brin & Knowledge Elite's Perspective:No small-minded, but popular, Trumpist or monarchic leaders holding the scientific bureaucrat's in check...UNLEASH the Technocracy!Kelvin Chan, "Europe’s world-first AI rules get final approval from lawmakers. Here’s what happens next"LONDON (AP) — European Union lawmakers gave final approval to the 27-nation bloc’s artificial -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-28985577480293581172024-03-15T09:16:00.013-04:002024-03-15T10:38:13.037-04:00Poor Things - Interpreting the Language of the Film-makerOn colour and camera lenses and Zooms
Movies about living life to its' fullest for an interpassive people who are barely alive themselves.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-86384042148591087882024-03-14T11:06:00.001-04:002024-03-14T11:06:04.826-04:00Zizek on Hegel's MonarchySlavoj Zizek, "In Defense of Hegel's Notion of Monarchy"As is well known, Hegel advocated constitutional monarchy as the only appropriate form of political order that fits modern society. His numerous critics see this weird advocacy either as a clear sign of Hegel’s immanent philosophical limitation or as a sign of his political conformism, with some more benevolently disposed critics -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-85885630680548754352024-03-14T08:27:00.006-04:002024-03-14T11:08:49.894-04:00Culture Hacking - The Greek Weird Wave-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-51655835459378600522024-03-13T11:19:00.007-04:002024-03-13T11:33:17.228-04:00Life Inside the Bubble
Carry the Light for others. Live for Beauty! Don't just "survive". Add something.
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-52768058541256123332024-03-12T15:21:00.003-04:002024-03-12T15:21:42.139-04:00A Cold Feeling Came Over Me...Emily Kagey, "Researchers uncover protein responsible for cold sensation"University of Michigan researchers have identified the protein that enables mammals to sense cold, filling a long-standing knowledge gap in the field of sensory biology.The findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, could help unravel how we sense and suffer from cold temperature in the winter, and why some patients -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-14142721561546351682024-03-12T10:03:00.003-04:002024-03-12T10:03:41.623-04:00Viral Viruses-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-6354139777796811102024-03-11T17:13:00.011-04:002024-03-11T17:40:08.299-04:00Hate Marketing - Getting Rich on the Internet from Haters and HateAnd as George Soros stated in his "Alchemy of Finance": "Alchemy is not interested in truth like the scientific method, it's interested in operational success." The method he said that they used to do the Alchemy of Finance was reflexivity. The idea is that you start jinning up an idea and make the idea become true because everybody starts talking about it and believing it in a -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-49361637449901003532024-03-11T14:07:00.006-04:002024-03-11T14:25:58.918-04:00Values Anti-Realism - A Science without any Imagination? Or too much?CS Lewis on the potential perils arising from a lack of a singular unifying Categorical Imperative based moral values ontology or from an Aesthetically determined Metanarrative based value system blended from various traditionally derived Cultural Leitmotifs (ie- the EU)-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-43374631927123167022024-03-11T11:27:00.007-04:002024-03-11T11:53:11.878-04:00AI - Mankind's "Ridiculous No-Man"......without a conscience, without a "Machine for Operating an Animal". A calculating (& with ChatGPT, now also a "communicating") absurdity.More on Dostoevsky on "The Ridiculous Man"-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-82899893936706118062024-03-10T13:42:00.005-04:002024-03-10T13:42:47.214-04:00Vanitas"Then I considered all which my hands had done and labored to do, and behold, all was vanity and chasing after the wind and there was no profit (nothing of lasting value) under the sun” Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 (AMP)-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-10714027864690309732024-03-10T12:15:00.004-04:002024-03-10T12:23:54.445-04:00RNA World?From Wiki:The RNA world is a hypothetical stage in the evolutionary history of life on Earth, in which self-replicating RNA molecules proliferated before the evolution of DNA and proteins. The term also refers to the hypothesis that posits the existence of this stage.Alexander Rich first proposed the concept of the RNA world in 1962,[1] and Walter Gilbert coined the term in 1986.[2] Alternative -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-45154757328934867772024-03-09T17:59:00.004-05:002024-03-09T18:35:38.165-05:00David Cronenberg, "Crimes of the Future"
As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-54003284055917676292024-03-09T10:51:00.004-05:002024-03-09T10:54:45.657-05:00Proto-Cell FormationDarren Orf, "This Could Be How the Earth’s First Cells Formed"The answer may have been hiding in our own bodies all along.Because phosphates lie at the heart of almost every chemical reaction in the human body, scientists from California-based Scripps research had a hunch that a phosphate process known as “phosphorylation” occurred earlier in Earth’s history than we previously realized. Exploring-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-10913245892680692024-03-07T18:25:00.008-05:002024-03-07T18:31:27.081-05:00Why Western Globalists Are Losing Market Share to China... Our Culture Wars Have Gone Global...We're Force Feeding 1st World PC Values onto 2nd & 3rd World Nations, and It Has a Price.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-68383561808112113242024-03-03T09:46:00.014-05:002024-03-06T12:40:53.671-05:00Cormac McCarthy...and "The Kekule Problem""To put it as pithily as possibly—and as accurately—the unconscious is a machine for operating an animal." - Cormac McCarthyIllustration by Don Kilpatrick IIIWhat is AI? Everything outside the circle.The problem with people today? They don't understand the machine that operates the animal INSIDE the circle. Cormac McCarthy is an author for those who want to -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-67442182882204041032024-03-02T13:28:00.004-05:002024-03-02T13:33:40.475-05:00Enjoy!The Dangerous Maybe, "Žižek for America: A Crisis of Ideological Enjoyment"— Introduction —The United States of America aren’t so united. Is our current state of politico-ideological tension really one between two conflicting sets of ideas? To some degree it surely is. There is a certain battle between different ideals and principles being waged at the moment. However, as opposed to ideological -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-54728620804848856492024-03-01T13:38:00.003-05:002024-03-01T13:57:31.126-05:00An Early Experiment in ProfilicityFernando Pessoa - The FlaneurAutopsychographyThe poet is a man who feignsAnd feigns so thoroughly, at lastHe manages to feign as painThe pain he really feels,And those who read what once he wroteFeel clearly, in the pain they read,Neither of the pains he felt,Only a pain they cannot sense.And thus, around its jolting trackThere runs, to keep our reason busy,The circling clockwork train of -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-85555683092840365972024-02-29T16:53:00.007-05:002024-02-29T17:22:02.951-05:00Nuke 'em, Danno!Much Better Video. -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-15555809341102998742024-02-28T15:27:00.004-05:002024-02-28T15:41:21.062-05:00Paul Delvaux, "The Anxious City" (1940-41)from Wiki:The Anxious City (French: La ville inquiète) is a painting made by Paul Delvaux in 1940–1941. It depicts a large number of upset people, most of whom are nude or partially nude, in front of a lake and classical structures. Among the characters who stand out are a naked self-portrait of Delvaux, a man in a bowler hat and a group of bare-breasted women. The man with the bowler hat made -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com0