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The Technium: The Missing Near Future

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1,000 True Fans. I'll Pay You to Read My Book. Who Should We Be? The Origins of Progress. The Ninth Transition of Evolution. Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism. New Kind of Truth. Long Clock, Big Gear. The Expansion of Ignorance. Narrow Gates of Inevitability. Where Attention Flows, Money Follows. Are We Duped By the Technium? The Whole Earth Blogalog. Everything, Too Cheaply Metered. Hi-Tech Ocean Row Boats. The Landscape of Possible Intelligences. Heinlein’s Fan Mail Solution. Looking For the Mouse.

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Civilization is Natural | FORWARD BASE B

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Welcome to the Base. What Caste Are You Now? Pay my troops no mind; they're just on a fact-finding mission. Posted by Giovanni Dannato. On May 17, 2015. Why do we suppose a beehive is natural and a city unnatural? The enlightenment idea that humans have somehow transcended nature by building “civilization” is absurd. Human societies are based on survival of the fittest, the city is no kinder than the jungle. Are not ants or termites then far more civilized than humans? The queen only has as many workers ...

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The Masses Crave Discipline | FORWARD BASE B

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Welcome to the Base. What Caste Are You Now? Pay my troops no mind; they're just on a fact-finding mission. The Masses Crave Discipline. Posted by Giovanni Dannato. On May 13, 2015. I soon discovered the ideas of a guy called Cesar Milan on the web, a fellow who I understand had a TV show. It soon struck me that his kind of ideas didn’t just seem dog-like to me. I’d never found a finer manual in the art of herding people. Over the years I’ve had stints as a substitute teacher and an English teacher...

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Cooking and the Nature of Societies | 6 Heretic's Way

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Table of Contents(By Category). 6 Heretic's Way. The System Gets What It Selects For, Not What We Intend It To Select For. Cooking and the Nature of Societies. April 5, 2012. Submitting Requests To Your Committee. As a nomadic twenty something I had to teach myself to cook. As a male, no one ever taught me the arts of the kitchen, nor as a male child had I any interest. I started out doing what the lonely guy in romantic comedies always does. He pulls out a book and starts trying to make recipes. Within ...

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The Fundamental Problem With Labor Movements | FORWARD BASE B

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Welcome to the Base. What Caste Are You Now? Pay my troops no mind; they're just on a fact-finding mission. The Fundamental Problem With Labor Movements. Posted by Giovanni Dannato. On May 17, 2015. Beggars can’t be choosers. Think of a homeless guy who washes car windows in traffic in hopes of getting paid. That’s the position of the wage slave. The tragedy of the modern labor force is that people are completely dependent on jobs. So how do they expect to get a better deal? We live in a post-industrial ...

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Giovanni Dannato | FORWARD BASE B

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Welcome to the Base. What Caste Are You Now? Pay my troops no mind; they're just on a fact-finding mission. The Internet Makes Social Outliers Viable. Posted by Giovanni Dannato. On August 22, 2016. We look at those civilizations that have been around longest and sure enough, even where their average members have very high IQ, they tend to lack personal initiative and creativity. Above all, living in big groups selects for people who feel comfortable fitting in with the group. There’s always been p...

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What I Believe | FORWARD BASE B

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Welcome to the Base. What Caste Are You Now? Pay my troops no mind; they're just on a fact-finding mission. It takes awhile to get the big picture of what a blog writer is trying to say. No one has time for that. I will try to list some points I’ve discussed here or would like to discuss. It’s not a summary, but perhaps it may give you a sense of flavor. On every level of human society we can expect to see an age of fracture with the re-emergence of tribe and faction. The old religions say “no&#822...

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How to Drop Out

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How to Drop Out. April 2, 2004. People who work get bored when they don't work. People who don't work never get bored. Graffiti, Paris, May 1968. Disclaimer (last updated October 2014). The original 2004 How to Drop Out. How To Drop Out" has been my most popular piece of writing for more than four years. In that time I've bought some land, which you can read about on my landblog. 1 Do not drop out. Dropping out is so cool! 2 "Drop out" is a bad metaphor,. No one has ever been in or out. 4 "Out" is relati...

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The Importance of Magic in Social Structures | 6 Heretic's Way

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Table of Contents(By Category). 6 Heretic's Way. The System Gets What It Selects For, Not What We Intend It To Select For. The Importance of Magic in Social Structures. April 5, 2012. The Most Precious Resource: Legitimacy. In our modern way of thought, few things can be more contemptible than superstition. Words like ‘magic’ and ‘witchcraft’ are taken to be synonymous with everything dark and barbaric. Is there really a demon causing the disease? It’s a pretty straightforward chain of causation that alm...