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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

NTGNTP (6th Draft): CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE Part 1.1.8

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Personal and family preparation is the first and longest step. Premature formal organization could eventually lead to a purge. The public ...
Saturday, March 26, 2005

The Society of the Spectacle 35-53

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1-15 16-34 Chapter 2: The Commodity as Spectacle “The commodity can be understood in its undistorted essence only when it becomes the univer...
Thursday, March 24, 2005

NTGNTP (6th Draft): CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE Part 1.1.7

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Insurrection is past its time for the current system. The machine is a deeply entrenched monstrosity that is invulnerable, short of nuclear...
Monday, March 21, 2005

The Society of the Spectacle 16-34

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1-15 16 The spectacle is able to subject human beings to itself because the economy has already totally subjugated them. It is nothing other...
Saturday, March 19, 2005

NTGNTP (6th Draft): CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE Part 1.1.6

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The Oklahoma City bombing is not a blow for freedom. The Branch Davidians are not martyrs--simply dead. Information is generally not activ...
Thursday, March 17, 2005

The Society of the Spectacle 1-15

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This feature will periodically post sections from The Society of the Spectacle , which is probably the most influential text of the Situatio...
Monday, March 14, 2005

NTGNTP (6th Draft): CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE Part 1.1.5

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The urban populations centers will continue their steady decline.[11] Public policy is most successful when directed toward that which the ...
Tuesday, March 08, 2005

NTGNTP (6th Draft): CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE Part 1.1.4

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The militia movement has become the traitor scapegoat, similar to black panthers and anti-vietnam war advocates, for the moment. Its power ...
Wednesday, March 02, 2005

NTGNTP (6th Draft): CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE Part 1.1.3

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1. Introduction - Part 3 The ruralite probably does not differentiate between the urban and sub-urban. The population centers are uniformly...
Thursday, February 24, 2005

NTGNTP (6th Draft): CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE Part 1.1.2

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1. Introduction - Part 2 Whereas the sub-urban achieves stagnation through its particular decadence, the rural has skipped ahead to full fle...
Sunday, February 20, 2005

NTGNTP (6th Draft): CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE Part 1.1.1

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Chapter 1 CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE 1. Introduction - Part 1 No closed system is permanent. All civilizations wane over time. The Machine ma...
Thursday, February 17, 2005

NEITHER THE GOVERNMENT NOR THE POPULATION (6th Draft) - Introduction

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The 6th Draft was written between April 1995 and July 1997. About 200 copies were distributed in two printings. A complete PDF copy is ava...
Wednesday, February 09, 2005

I Drove a Taxi Cab - Part 2

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Of course, since buying the cab, I had noticed an increase in aggression towards my car. I had never experienced anywhere near as much rude...
Thursday, February 03, 2005

I Drove a Taxi Cab - Part 1

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Draft 1.0 I drove a taxi cab, but I never was a cabby. Someone had hit and run my ‘76 Chrysler Newport[1], and after about 6 months the ...
Thursday, January 27, 2005

OODA Loops and Decline

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An OODA loops, based on the works of Colonel John Boyd, is an Observation - Orientation - Decision - Action Loop. Chuck Spinney, in Commen...