It's Dangerous to Go Alone

It’s Dangerous to Go Alone

80s parents stereotypically trashed video games as brain-rotting wastes of time. But the best games of that time did contain nuggets of wisdom, one of the foremost being "It's dangerous to go alone!" A notorious game mechanic of 2D era adventure games involved starting the main character without the main…
July 13, 20212 Comments
paradigm

We Need a New Paradigm

For most of the people reading this post, the only political paradigm they've known is the Left-Right dichotomy. In the United States, citizen participation in that dialectic has long meant supporting either democrats or republicans--both at the ballot box and in the public square. Libertarianism existed as a compromise position…
July 12, 202115 Comments
Panorama Agents - Y Signal

Panorama Agents

Wherein author JD Cowan points out that cracks were showing in the pleasure dome the Boomers built to pacify their kids years before it collapsed. This summer of 1995, however, had felt somewhat off. Ray couldn’t put his finger on why. This movie continued that oddly detached feeling he had…
July 9, 2021
U2 Godzilla

Defusing the Pop Bomb 2

Folks seemed to enjoy my previous look at what might have been if Cultural Ground Zero hadn't happened. Today felt like as good a time as any for a second glimpse at an alternate timeline, but instead of vide games, this "what if?" will focus on the music industry. Specifically,…
July 8, 20217 Comments
Simulation Argument

Dark Ages

Every religion provides its adherents with an origin story--an explanation for who the faithful are and how their creed came to be. Nu-atheism is no exception. Some would argue that atheism isn't a religion but a lack of belief. Science and logic prove this claim false. Human beings are wired…
July 7, 202116 Comments
Shapiro Page

Conservative NPCs

It's easy to forget in the constant churn of internet culture, but the NPC meme as originally conceived and popularized had no political content. The channers who came up with the meme used it to describe the majority of people who follow the crowd without reflection. Like the video game…
July 6, 202114 Comments
The World You Were Raised to Survive In No Longer Exists

The Boomer Black Hole

Another round of black pilling on Generation Z swept through counterculture circles over the July 4 weekend. The hand-wringing for the future was occasioned by this survey. Now, the takeaway some are deriving from those figures, that only about a third of Zoomers believe in God, is provably nonsense. What…
July 5, 20216 Comments
Get off Facebook

Delete Facebook

As I pointed out in the comments on yesterday's post, a hallmark of authoritarian regimes is their need to make everybody inform on everyone else. Facebook, the online marketing firm to which the state has long outsourced its censorship work, has now dropped any pretext of being an open forum…
July 1, 20218 Comments