Monad

Cultures are remembered by the aesthetic artifacts they produce. Technological developments may contribute more significantly to the growth and progress of civilization.

England’s darkest page from its colonial rule is found in the chapter on India. It came on April 13, 1919, at Jallianwala Bagh, also known as the, “Amritsar Massacre.”

The principle of sufficient reason placed perfection and plenitude on a pedestal, gifts from the eternal Pastor. Put through the grist mill of a civilization determined by competitive quantification (also known as capitalism),

Banastre Tarleton was the worst war criminal of the American revolution. He executed unarmed prisoners and the practice became known as "Tarleton's quarter." He was at Yorktown when the British were defeated and returned to England a hero where he was immortalized by painter Sir Joshua Reynolds.

The president is the vestigial member of absolutism. Instead of deriving power from providence, the president is delivered power from an equally problematic source- the general will- a philosophical fallacy. Co-existence and absolute independence are incompatible concepts.

Deck the Halls

Territoriality Territoriality. A primitive instinct more primordial than any other. Space is absolute irreducibility, more so than time. Time requires the presence of ego-consciousness. Space does not. Trees exercise territoriality as they stretch their branches competing for the sun.

My thoughts for Thanksgiving America has become like one of its own really bad reality TV shows Poorly scripted Lousy actors Terrible direction Questionable ethics Too many commercial interruptions Soundtrack sucks I for one don't feel thankful.

Snorkeling

Truth Be Told Is there generic meaning from which all language is derived? This is the question that has plagued philosophy since, the linguistic turn, that took place a century ago. How does our access to that meaning determine its shape, its size, and its value?

Torcello 2011

RFK Jr's brain

After Germany's defeat Himmler took off his SS uniform, put on one of a common foot soldier, and tried to escape among the multitude. He was recognized and bit down on a cyanide capsule he had hidden in his teeth. Heydrich had been assassinated 3 years earlier. Kaltenbrunner hanged at Nuremberg.

Le poisson rouge heureux

CIVIL DEMOCRACY Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power 1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections Executive council with rotating chair Independent department of judication No party role in national politics Public Oversight Civil bureaucracy NO PRESIDENT

The devastating consequences of the First World War brought revolution to German. It was barely a blip on the radar but would determine the course of events to the present day. In 1919, every morning the streets of Berlin and Munich were strewn with the bodies of the contending factions;

The fall of Rome is a decisive moment in the history of humankind. A transformation takes place within human consciousness. Good and evil were no longer an objective balance between virtue and vice transmogrified as pleasure and pain, but an internal conviction measured against a substantive norm.

Stratified societies are not unique to human beings. Status groups within various species are commonplace in nature. A class society is not a human invention. But humankind has put its unique stamp on the institution.

There are $2.8 trillion in the social security trust fund. Trump will claim he needs that money to prevent a national security disaster...a disaster of his own making. Trump will pocket most of it and divide the rest among the MAGA oligarchs to maintain their greedy appetites.

The Second Amendment In 1787, Daniel Shays led a rebellious uprising in the State of Massachusetts, in a United States still struggling against the inadequate measures of the Articles of Confederation. Shays and his fellow rebels had a legitimate gripe.

Good Caturday Morning

Top ranking Nazis cheated the hangman. Albert Speer's hands were almost as dirty as Hitler's. He finagled his way into a 20 year sentence. Heinz Guderian was never a member of the Nazi party. He more than anyone else was responsible for the defeat and occupation of France. He spent 3 years in jail.

The republicans who remain complicitly silent will have no recourse and receive no reprieve when the shoe is on the other foot and they find the noose around their own necks.

CIVIL DEMOCRACY Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power 1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections Executive council with rotating chair Independent department of judication No party role in national politics Public Oversight Civil bureaucracy NO PRESIDENT

The more unhinged and deranged and homicidal Trump becomes in his efforts to deflect from Epstein the more you realize that the files are much worse for Trump than we ever imagined.

Rhytidoponera tasmaniensis

Anubis

Mathematics Mathematics: Fact or Fiction? That is the inescapable allure of Mathematics. A fiction so pure and unassailable that fiction becomes fact. Mathematics induces the illusion that there is order and harmony. It establishes truths that remain valid beyond time and place.

"Enlightenment is simply one mythology being replaced by another." -Horkheimer & Adorno/Dialectic of Enlightenment

Trump

Bertrand Russell wrote that the survival of the planet depended on the coming into being of a unified world government. This could be accomplished in one of two ways. The first is more congenial; by agreement.

Please...Be My Guest

“And in general the moment we leave perceived facts and seek explanation- which after all is implied in the desire for truth- we find that we are moving away from the given. Universal and abstract truths are not given facts, nor do they merely reproduce the given,

American culture is sustained on violence. It grows out of our violent heritage. Our entire history, from before the revolution to the present, can be documented as the systematic application of organized and random violence.

The political divide will not be healed until we are able to govern without a president. A president is not a flagpole around which to rally, but the emblem for which one pledges allegiance to one side or the other of an equivocal ideology. The president is division personified.

Squirrel Takes a Nap

The Other Realm There is only one realm. The Other Realm is a mental construction. The Other Realm is a part of this realm no matter how Otherish a complexion it is made to assume. When humankind began its contingent existence, its Other Realm came to life.

State Capitol Hartford CT, August 2, 2025

Where's the ballroom at

@thebulwark.com American Idols American culture is a cinematic nightmare. Examine the aesthetic artifacts it produces. Americans are the unenviable prisoners of a market driven industry that exploits the psychological tinder box suppressed beneath the modern landscape.

We Broke Through the Clouds

CIVIL DEMOCRACY Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power 1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections Executive council with rotating chair Independent department of judication No party role in national politics Public Oversight Civil bureaucracy NO PRESIDENT

Tribute to a Soldier There is no greater honor than to serve in the defense of one’s country. The soldier going into combat does so under the assumption that those who are sending them into harm’s way are doing it for the right reason.