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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Review of Brave New War #1

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Brave New War by John Robb is packed full of same material and minimalist writing style (I approve) that may be found at his web site Globa...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Seven.25

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25. This Modern Warrior Archetype fights with its head. The modern order may only be challenged or defended by employing knowledge regard...
Saturday, August 11, 2007

This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Seven.24

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24. For some, strife is a rush that beats any drug. Willingly succumbing to the call of conflict, these sort will look for provocations. A...
Saturday, August 04, 2007

This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Seven.23

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23. Among those able to discern trends and foresee likely events, there will always be those whom refuse to embrace their predictions. Unsu...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Seven.22

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22. Psychological pressure may be applied both scientifically and artistically. Scientific methods tend to be surer, but are by their natu...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Seven.21

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21. Repression is not oppression, or is it?
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Alan Sokal

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Papers by Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair." His 1996 prank exposed the ridiculousness of post-modern bullshit. "Impo...
Sunday, July 22, 2007

On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Seven.20

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20. Degeneration is a social and cultural phenomenon that imprints itself upon psychological products. The environment may not affect and d...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Interlude: Aphorisms Galore #10

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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. When the rich make war it's the poor that die. -Jean-Paul Sartr...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Interlude: Aphorisms Galore #9

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1. Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. 2. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -Groucho Marx War ...
Sunday, July 15, 2007

Interlude: Aphorisms Galore #8

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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. -Joseph Heller: Catch-2 There is one thing stronge...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

Interlude: Aphorisms Galore #7

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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. -Edward Everett They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Interlude: Aphorisms Galore #6

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Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that the...
Saturday, July 07, 2007

Interlude: Aphorisms Galore #5

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1. People only see what they are prepared to see. 2. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007

A Living Aphorism: "To Be Or To Do?"

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A living aphorism: To Be Or To Do? "Tiger, one day you will come to a fork in the road,” he said. “And you’re going to have to make a d...