R. Buckminster Fuller

Brand Evangelism: Consuming Our Way to Meaning?

In today’s extremely online world, we see branding going beyond just selling products. From tech giants to entertainment companies, corporations are deploying “brand evangelism” to create devoted followings with cultish loyalty. This phenomenon has turned product consumption into a substitute for deeper, more meaningful pursuits—and for many fans, it's become…
September 6, 202410 Comments

Generational Stereotypes Work

Stereotypes catch a bad rap. But when you get to the heart of the matter, all they are is hyper-efficient ways of transmitting common understandings. For example, we all know the trope of the clueless Boomer clicking his tongue at younger generations who haven't made out as well as he…
August 6, 202413 Comments
Vaughn Family

Vaughn Sentenced for Pro-Life Activism

America is a Christian nation. But on the anniversary of the United States' independence, pro-life activist Paul Vaughn lost his freedom on the order of a federal judge. Pro-life activist Paul Vaughn, who was convicted on federal charges for his role in a protest at a Tennessee abortion clinic, has…
July 5, 20249 Comments
Psaki Cant

Managerial Cult Ritual Cant

By and large, I avoid discussing basic presidential politics here. The main reason being that politics, defined as conducting public discourse to decide the optimal way of distributing resources for the common good, is impossible in a one-party state. But today I'm making an exception to the rule, occasioned by…
July 3, 20246 Comments
Julian Assange Released

Julian Assange Released on Bail

With never-before-seen poltiical upheavals already swirling around the upcoming US elections, a new bombshell development has added to the already raging firestorm of controversy. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a man widely credited and vilified for helping Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016, has spent the better part of a…
June 26, 2024
Cancel Adobe

“Cancel Adobe”: Backlash Prompts Corp to Update TOS Again

Adobe is suffering considerable external and internal backlash over their convoluted terms of service update. The one whose plain reading says they get to take ownership of your IP without compensation. Who could have predicted this turn of events? Last week, Photoshop and Substance 3D developer Adobe stole the headlines…
June 17, 202410 Comments
Metaverse Biopanopticon Wojak

The Metaverse Biopanopticon

If you were anywhere online two years back, it was impossible to avoid the revived hype surrounding virtual reality, particularly Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse. Like self-driving cars, AI, and solar-powered homes, you can throw VR on the pile of futuristic technologies that eggheads have been swearing since the 1980s were "just…
June 10, 20246 Comments
Adobe TOS

Adobe’s New TOS Makes You the Product?

As the state of technology gets worse and worse, observations by two dissident influencers become more and more relevant. The first is the Z Man, proprietor of the Z Blog, who has pointed out that if you don't know what a tech company's product is, then you are the product.…
June 6, 202416 Comments
Donald Trump

As Predicted, Donald Trump Convicted in Show Trial

Longtime readers are aware that I've been saying for years that the regime would railroad Donald Trump on upjumped charges. Now, as predicted, a New York judge has convicted Donald Trump in a highly publicized show trial. NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former American president to…
May 31, 20249 Comments
Church Shooting

Then They Fight Us, Then We Win

The increase in high-profile attacks on churches isn't the own that Satanic Death Cultists think it is, if history is any indication. A gunman learned that lesson firsthand In Louisiana on Saturday when he was apprehended by parishoners before he could open fire on a first communion Mass. ABBEVILLE, La.…
May 13, 202416 Comments