Slouching Towards Oblivion

Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts

Friday, July 08, 2011

A Christian Freaks Out

The lady seems pretty calm at first - and the recording has nothing about what leads up to her tantrum - but then she gets just a little nuts.

I do wonder about the affects of all this constant exposure of our behavior to millions of people via the inter-tubes.  Seems like everybody has a camera, and there's an awful lot of casual surveillance going on.

Friday, October 09, 2009

Meta-Narrative

"A narrative is the series of events which the individual organism experiences. The meta-narrative is the collective history by which a group defines itself."

(snip)

"One thing that has become clearer to me in the last six years is that democracy is for grownups, and most people, whatever lipservice they give to the concept, really don't want the responsibility of self-rule."


Read it all at The Agonist.