Author Archives: billgamesh

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/obituary-modern-day-darwin-eo-wilson-dies-92-2021-12-27/ EO Wilson taught me that we are driven by unseen forces and for most that lesson is refused. We are not the captains of our fate except perhaps in that tiniest detail of sentient existence; realizing that we are not the captains of our fate. “Steven Pinker argues that critics have been overly swayed byContinue reading “Sociobiology”

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-21-16-spinal-cord-injury-to-cancer-to-covid/id876042622?i=1000517004019 There is a dividing line between two types of human being. This is not an appropriate statement to make in almost any context imaginable. But in this case…I feel justified in doing so. I listened to the linked Tech Nation podcast the other morning on the way to work- it was a repeat fromContinue reading “Filthy Lucre”

https://interestingengineering.com/new-space-based-solar-panels-could-beam-a-great-abundance-of-energy-to-earth Here we are, all these years later.

Be good if that faithful lightning was loosed from that terrible swift sword very soon…or we might be a fascist dictatorship any day now.

Flynn calling for a coup, the national guard refusing orders, soldiers refusing vaccinations, and…confusion over allegiance to the constitution or Trumpism. Insane. Generals and Judges were my heroes for a moment, but now I am wondering who to trust. “Obviously he has lost his mind-“. Flynn’s brother is now suspect in delaying the national guardContinue reading “Disgraceful”

“Such regimes are particularly susceptible to outbreaks of armed conflict and unexpected or adverse changes in leadership.[9]“ The storm is coming, the day of the rope, whatever label you want to use for catastrophe. “Former democracies that transition to anocracy have a greater risk of being embroiled in civil conflict.[4] The population’s awareness of what rightsContinue reading “Anocracy”

This might be where America begins again…or ends.

“-a sense of disbelief, that this just can’t happen here.” “-there are 21 million Americans who are part of a mass political movement…that is conspiracy minded and supports the use of violence for political ends. We have not been in that place in this country…very likely since about a hundred years ago, which was theContinue reading “Catastrophe”

Animate or Aggregate? (37:10) Oord and Chris Hedges and…even Joel Osteen. They tell us things and we don’t seem to be listening. I watched a documentary about how messed up the world is and it really depressed me. What is going to happen?