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the majestic plastic bag
Definitely the best short mockumentary I’ve ever seen,
Lovecraft on youth
“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 [...]
what are all these Russians in line for?
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.
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 [...]
being American can be fun!
[via Awful Library Books]
“going green” won’t save us
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 [...]
the whole history of science
“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
all the hilarity of Peak Oil
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.
petroleum man
While it is highly unlikely that humanity will go extinct in the near future, petroleum man almost certainly will…
