A sort of exansion of our previous installment, as we examine the case history of someone poised on the knife edge of oracle hood, one Richard Grove.
From there, we proceed into paranoia, pronoia, Carl Jung and synchronicity, neurogenetic mass mutation, sith lords, evil kung fu masters, and the species alarm clock.
Is it [...]
The Mosaic Effect 13: Intimations of the Nightmare
The Mosaic Effect 12: Reign of the Oracles
The divinatory impulse, abandonment to the irrational in the guise of intuition, consciousness alienated from unconsciousness, the killing of the king, the pattern ‘recognition’ of our ruling class of prognosticators and false prophets, and who’s really in charge when no one is in charge?
oh yes. it’s a barrel of monkeys this week, my [...]
The Mosaic Effect 11: The First Corner
what starts as harmless speculation on reviewing your personal history quickly devolves into an orgy of time distortion, pointless reverie, some brutal advice on handling your career and relationships, wild missappropriations of systems theory, and big stinky turds in the rat maze, as well as some disjointed refferences to steven wolfram’s a new kind of science
come [...]
The Mosaic Effect 10: World Without End
Deftly changing the subject for everyone’s comfort, we leave aside genocidal nietzschean fascism, to instead discuss the world forming powers of the mind.
Thwarted magic, getting what you want ( or not), thugged out crack dealers and hipsters, the dreams of the godhead, psychoplastic schizoid disorders, and the benefit of having few goals and [...]
The Mosaic Effect 9: The Big Question
More on peak oil, slave morality, shadow projection, alchemical questioning, disassociated resentment, morality vs empathy, the internet as sense organ, and ripping people’s hearts out.
Post-moral alchemical demigods, or just twisted by the dark side? A fine way to use a half hour of your life, methinks, as my apparent desire for exile from the arena [...]
