My Collected Writings on history, science fiction, philosophy, and women.
Turning Grey Ash Into Silver Dust
This is an effect I’ve seen happen elsewhere – the Silver Screen granting some of its cinematic magic onto lesser writing, and bolstering it into something truly wonderful.
Update on the Short Film
Sorry that posting and videos have been light for the past couple weeks; I’ve had one thing taking up my time, and that’s the short film Lust in the Time of Heartache that I’m producing for the Telus corporation. We started filming on Friday, and should be done by the end of today. Here are some of the photos from the stunt work we did yesterday. It’s been an endless series of headaches, of course, but it’s all starting to come together… Next week I’m editing, editing, editing – but after that we should be back to our regular schedule....
Civilization and the Iterrated Prisoner’s Dilemma
I cannot overstate what a terrible, terrible thing the Prisoner’s Dilemma is. It is Objective Reality run amok. It is Cthulhu’s maw gaping for our souls. It is an eternal hall of mirrors squeezing in on you, until the glass shatters and tears through your eyes, and into your soul.
Automated Prisons, and the Dilemma of Love
We are all prisoners of this world, all of us locked into this psychopathic trust game with one another, and the only sane answer is – each and every time – to defect, to sell out your co-conspirator, and to hope to God that they’re just a robotic simulacrum that sold you out first.
Hard Limits and Electric Cars
Heroism and tragedy, death and vanity – they’re two sides of the same coin. In this world, we are often at our greatest when we are at our most foolish.
Everything you need to know about Climate Change
If questioning the orthodoxy of Climate Change will get a man fired, than the insidious, indirect effects of politicized science are going to be ten times more powerful.
Pursuing Arete: Medicine, Journalism, and Art
All writing (as with all Art, all engineering, all software coding…) must first and foremost be beautiful. Second, it must be True. Third, it must be unique… and most importantly, it must do all of these things unconsciously.
In Praise of Anonymity
Understanding the societal-level reasons behind the decline are important, both as an intellectual exercise, and so that we can maintain our own civilized natures, despite the chaos. However, in our personal lives, all we can do is respond rationally to the system we’re in.
No Equality Between Complements
The nature of the Masculine is the formal, the explicit, the direct; that of the Feminine is the informal, the occulted, the indirect.
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