This is the first part of a 3-part BBC documentary on the rise of both Neoconservatism and Radical Islam. If you have an hour, it’s definitely worth a look.

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When I pass this website down to my children, I’ll probably deliver a similar speech.

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Because this version of creation is amusing, but looks more every year like an old Nintendo game.

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In many ways, Terence McKenna was like a naive, psychedelic Rousseau preaching to the infantile desires of back-to-nature New-Ageists . . . but, sometimes I rather like what he had to say (perhaps because of my own back-to-nature, New-Ageist tendencies).

History is ending because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, [...]

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Thank Sprite for this madness . . .
This is a link to a story about a little town called Highland Park, Michigan.

Highland Park might’ve easily been America’s most promising city, with flourishing, highly affluent neighborhoods and institutions. Today, however, it is America’s most destroyed city, and those neighborhoods have been mostly [...]

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Old age (the name that others give it)
can be the time of our greatest bliss.
The animal has died or almost died.
The man and his spirit remain.
I live among vague, luminous shapes
that are not darkness yet.
Buenos Aires,
whose edges disintegrated
into the endless plain,
has gone back to being the Recoleta, the Retiro,
the nondescript streets of the Once,
and the [...]

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