Category Archives: ideas

thoughts, ideas, notions.

there’s no tomorrow

Posted on 2012/02/13 by dermot

This has been a long time coming! I began tentatively in 2005, and only completed it a few weeks ago. Finally, it’s fit for public consumption!

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wigan pier, the machine

Posted on 2011/05/17 by dermot

From “The Road to Wigan Pier” by George Orwell, 1937: “To begin with, there is the frightful debauchery of taste that has already been effected by a century of mechanisation. This is almost too obvious and too generally admitted to … Continue reading →

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reagan’s snarl

Posted on 2011/02/07 by dermot

John Dolan shows his mettle again. Essential reading for an understanding of the political condition of modern America, through memories of Ronald’s time as Governor of California: Reagan’s Cheshire Snarl Reagan … managed to destroy everything that was best about … Continue reading →

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the snafu principle

Posted on 2011/02/02 by dermot

This may go some way to explaining the shock, surprise, and apparent lack of unpreparedness of the world’s nations to the current events in the Middle East: “The SNAFU Principle”, explained many years ago by Robert Anton Wilson: It’s what … Continue reading →

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bill bailey

Posted on 2010/12/22 by dermot

A fun Bill Bailey interview. Not your usual stand-up comic: “My comedy increasingly goes into the most abstruse areas,” says Bailey once we get inside and settle down to tea. And how. In his current show, Dandelion Mind at London’s … Continue reading →

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to we or not to we

Posted on 2010/12/08 by dermot

Before reading this piece about wooly-headed thinking, here’s the lucid George Carlin: He’s with Bill Hicks now…wherever the Heck that is. You may have noticed a curious phenomenon: one day, something that you hadn’t previously been bothered by suddenly begins … Continue reading →

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orson & chartres

Posted on 2010/11/24 by dermot

Orson Welles provides 2 minutes and 30 seconds of magic. From “F For Fake” (1974): And this has been standing here for centuries. The premier work of man perhaps in the whole western world, and it’s without a signature: Chartres. … Continue reading →

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codex seraphinianus

Posted on 2010/11/03 by dermot

The Voynich Manuscript is one of the oddest objects from history. Written around the 15th or 16th century, it’s a book that seems to be an encyclopedia from another world, written in a script that appears to be real. It … Continue reading →

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daily show rally

Posted on 2010/10/31 by dermot

Laurel wreaths and triumphant marches to Mark Ames for a clinical analysis of the gen-xy “Daily Show” rally. Note to the xy gang: post modern irony won’ t do squat. The banksters are laughing at you, well, all the way … Continue reading →

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beware the specter

Posted on 2010/10/28 by dermot

Beware the Specter that’s haunting America: The real ghostly apparition that is haunting us now is a natural reflection of the fundamental lethality of industrial civilization itself and the systems of hierarchy and domination it has devised and perfected, all … Continue reading →

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364 pick-up

Posted on 2010/10/27 by dermot

Several months ago, reading one of Robert Anton Wilson’s “Cosmic Trigger” books, an interesting fact was revealed: the standard playing card deck contains 4 suits and 52 cards (not counting Jokers, yet). 4 seasons, 52 weeks. Coincidence? It’s the kind … Continue reading →

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culture is not your friend

Posted on 2010/10/26 by dermot

terence mckenna talks about the machine culture, and the correct response to it. Continue reading →

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