Belief and Common Reality
I was sitting with a close friend, F, and his wife, W, in a Tucson breakfast joint the other month; the discussion was hovering around figures of the Deepak Chopra flavour: how those types continue to profess insight on the workings of the universe by stringing together sexy physics words like a guru-Mad-Lib but who still curry favour with a surprising number of people. My mental defenses were down as W had made it into my grouping of ‘friends-who-are-probably-not-nutjobs’, albeit through the historically treaty forming, and (in retrospect) stink-eye deserving, route of marriage; since they were down, i was totally unprepared for the steep plummet this conversation was just about to take… … Continue reading
Marked as: Belief Systems • Introspection • Science — 7 comments (RSS)
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Loading ...A Unique Invitation into a Subversive Conspiracy
Process.org cordially invites you, the esteemed reader, to share in a Conspiracy of Subversion. We want to hear your personal tales of lies, embezzlement, fraud, theft, malice, anomy, depredation, despoilation, iniquity and maleficence. We are looking for subversive, destructive, scofflaw employees. In the spirit of the following anecdote, we are soliciting you to post your own tales of subversion in the workplace for possible use in a future publication. Suitable stories will earn their author an official Process.org t-shirt, available no where else (while supplies last, of course). … Continue reading
And Begin…
The Process started for me in Malibu in the early 90’s. I had been working with Skinny Puppy for several years and received an invitation to join the band as a full time visual artist. At the time I had pseudo net access (email and news reader) through a great unix BBS called the Edge Of Perception. It was enough to give me some access to the outside world and get me really thinking about this whole Internet thing, the impact it was having and going to have on us all. Keep in mind this was before Mosaic, the first visual web browser. The concept we had was to create an album length video in tandem with the recording of the new record for American Recordings. But we wanted to take it much further than this. I’ve long been a student of Marshall Mcluhan. The famous Canadian media theorist who coined the aphorism “The Media Is The Message”. I had also been reading Neil Postman who I thought did a good job of rounding up a lot of ideas regarding media technologies and their impact on culture. So basically I was thinking about developing the project as a meme. … Continue reading
Marked as: Abnormal Sociology • Technology — 9 comments (RSS)
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At some point in my later teens I began to wonder where Satan had gotten off to. In earlier years the insidious Old Scratch was everywhere; planting blasphemous backward messages in music, sowing the seeds of homicide in spiritually naive Dungeons & Dragons players, and encouraging every manner of sinful abandon. The liquor-sodden, cathode-entranced, wife-beating working class of Middle America knew that the failings of their dysgenic children could only be attributed to the Supernatural. I seemed to recall a social climate in which terrified parent groups would assemble late-night emergency meetings to discuss the threat of an ever-present occult movement hell-bent on destroying democracy and decency itself. Everywhere, there was an undertone of panic … Continue reading
A New Era in Legal Culpability
Common Law has a long history of preventing persons from being protected from criminal prosecution by the mantle of ignorance. It is likely that this notion has a much longer legal existence in human civilization, as Roman Law expresses the idea as “ignorantia legis non excusat” — “ignorance of the law does not excuse.” Over the past decade, first and second world societies have introduced an exception clause to this concept which should be taken as a warning sign of a potentially widening crack. … Continue reading
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