We gather in shadowsBefore screens of lightBeneath arcs of rhythmWhere stories dog-fight Where nothing is warmBut all is just rightEnergy generated, energy spentAnd no end in sight The sky overheadBoundless, indifferentDraws it in to no effectAs the sea swallows the shipwreck
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Fundamentalist Christians will save Science
In Britain A doctor has been “sacked” as a medical assessor for a government department after refusing to renounce his Christian belief that gender is determined at birth, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal. Dr David Mackereth has worked for 26 years as an NHS doctor but was told he could not be employed as aContinue reading “Fundamentalist Christians will save Science”
In the Event
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff recalls a paid speaking engagement in Medium: After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthyContinue reading “In the Event”
Zunday
Z Man is our guest today on Luke Ford.
Reinventing Ourselves Out of Existence
It’s a hoary old tradition on the progressive left to use Independence Day to hold forth on what America “is”, invariably defining it in ways that would have made the Founders appeal to King George to be readmitted to the empire if they saw it coming. More often than not it revolves around black grievanceContinue reading “Reinventing Ourselves Out of Existence”
Fourth of Nostalgia
Fourth of July about fifteen years ago, flying out of LA as the sun went down. I’m at the window seat watching the fireworks displays light up the landscape here and there. Only the prescient few know what’s coming. I’m not one of them. Nearby they illuminate the cities below: football fields, lakefronts, suburban grids.Continue reading “Fourth of Nostalgia”
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Four Tet, Hands Odd Nosdam, Profane Bong Sue
Bronze Age Book Club
Today’s title for the KMG Book Club on Luke Ford is Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert of Twitter. Back in February 2017 the Atlantic contacted Mencius Moldbug, having learned Steve Bannon had read him; he rick-rolled them with BAP. Mencius, quoted in the Atlantic, via Steve Sailer: “Think you should speak directly to my WH cutoutContinue reading “Bronze Age Book Club”
The Drum Machine of Outrage
The press is working hard to nurture outrage over Trump’s separation of illegal immigrant families at the border, not just out of opposition to immigration enforcement but with an eye toward hobbling the Republicans in the midterm elections. Now a Trump tweet asserting illegal immigrants won’t be allowed to “infect America” has given them theContinue reading “The Drum Machine of Outrage”
Luke Ford’s Book Club with Kevin Grace
The Devil’s Delusion by David Berlinski
untethered 