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exposing the unconscious corporate value system

Those who control history control the future and in Life Inc. Douglas Rushkoff makes his mark on our future by detailing the history of Corporate Capitalism as the political and economic reality of the modern world. After evolving over hundreds of years into its current form, Corporate Capitalism is now taken so thoroughly for granted that [...]

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a deep physics of finance

The global economic crisis that started in 2008 has summoned a deeper skepticism of the economic mainstream with its corresponding prognostications for endless growth and prosperity. Individuals are starting to question the need to play on the giant wheels of churning money that represented the retirement funds and investments of the past. While I’ve been [...]

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the aliens we’ve been looking for might just be inside us

Graham Hancock is the king of speculation. His books will either convince you there’s a lot more to human history or make you scoff at his possibly outlandish ideas. Regardless, it is damn entertaining. One of the first books I ever bought was his Fingerprints of the Gods (1996) which discussed how anomalies associated with [...]

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change everything you think in two hours

This is the one track of audio to rule them all. In it, bard and sage and storyteller and author Terence McKenna speaks on the origin of human consciousness in a talk titled, Evolving Times. Terence McKenna has had a tremendous influence on the way I’ve developed since I first discovered him back in 2004. [...]

confronting collapse

I first learned of Mike Ruppert through a chilling trailer for his then upcoming movie, Collapse. Ruppert has a long history as an investigative journalist that began when he broke away from the mainstream after his excellence in the LA police  led him to be actively recruited by the CIA for running cocaine through South-Central [...]

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• Definitely the best short mockumentary I've ever seen, #
• “There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.” –from H.P. Lovecraft’s “Celephais” (more...) #
• This line is for the first McDonalds that opened in the former Soviet Union. Other countries are infinitely more patient than the US... but then again a line for a McDonalds sure beats a bread line in a collapsed economy. (more...) #
• [via Awful Library Books] #
• A recent article by Washington Post staff writer Michael Rosenwald hits on a great point about the tendency to over-consume after "going green", 'Purchasing green products may license indulgence in self-interested and unethical behaviors.' Local home-appliance and building contractors who specialize in green products see examples of such indulgence almost every day. They have begun to warn customers that installing green products in their homes does not give them license to overconsume: Don't run the plasma TV all night just because you put solar panels on your roof; don't take endless showers because your water is heated off the grid; don't do more loads of laundry because your machine is energy-efficient. Lucas Davis, an energy economist at the University of California, Berkeley, has published a study showing that after getting high-efficiency washers, consumers increased clothes washing by nearly 6 percent. Other studies show that people leave energy-efficient lights on longer. A recent study by the Shelton Group, which advocates for sustainable consumer choices, showed that of 500 people who had greened their homes, a third saw no reduction in bills. (more...) #
• “The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.” - S. Hawking #
• In this episode of The Bugle, John Oliver and Andy Zaltzmann give a great comedic run-down of the problem looming with peak oil. Mainly covering the fact that the stone-age wasn't that bad, and that painting yourself blue in a post-industrial future will be a lot more socially acceptable. (more...) #
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• While it is highly unlikely that humanity will go extinct in the near future, petroleum man almost certainly will... (more...) #
• An upcoming documentary, Transcendent Man, details the story of Ray Kurzweil's Singularity: the idea that machines will gain consciousness as a true AI will be developed. At that point, the machines will either help us reach our potential among the stars or enslave us and torture us for fun (more...) #
• In addition to the many other reasons to maintain ancient forests, perhaps their greatest value to us is that they instill a sense of humility in the human experience. (more...) #
• I'm intrigued by the notion that Stanford Research Institute members were engaged in the design of Disneyland to harness secret technologies. An upcoming book by Walter Bosley will supposedly cover this in detail. But a recent post over on Disinfo covers some of the claims: (more...) #