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war games: virtual hero

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Dave

What me worry? The country is safe. The anarchist threat has been rebuffed. The virtual vigilantes ensure that the sun will always rise on America. …”The latest ‘Call of Duty” video game set a first-day sales record of over $400million … Continue reading →

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shifting mainstream: a murky sideshow

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dave

You have to wonder whether the current, almost virulent anti-Arab and Muslim invective in America and to some extent in Canada is not induced by a larger effort, principally using the media, in order to enact behavior modification through a … Continue reading →

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the age of incompetence

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Dave

Are our government’s in the West incompetent? No doubt the nation state is in crisis and its future of more than passing concern. Whether in terminal collapse as some libertarians seem to be wagering on, or some from of re-tooling … Continue reading →

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“I pledge allegiance…”

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Dave

Are we Rome in decline, a dying society? One may doubt that we have reached that point of dissolution, where in the phrase of Giovanni Battista Vico men “finally go mad and waste their substance.” One may doubt the ultimately … Continue reading →

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cultural collision: fatal impact

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Dave

The American dream, white picket fences and two cars in every garage…. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) Magazine cover of the week!! Well, maybe the half century? When we think back on the 1950′s, the cliched vision we concoct is … Continue reading →

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Doin’ the right thing. the white stuff

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Dave

Simple. A simple government.Common Sense. “Family Values” Its a common refrain that wraps up a political agenda into a wider context of right wing reactionary politics in which the apparent simplicity of the message is not detachable from a politics … Continue reading →

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Power of the narrative: distributing the sensible

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Dave

Call it the hidden hand.When the narrative breaks down the ability to pull classic trump hands from the pile. This means of depicting the other as something suspicious; like turning over a rock with a stick and seeing what living … Continue reading →

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ATHEIST-thetics of CHRISTMAS: Just be Merry?

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Dave

Is it presents or presence? Santa or Saint Nick, or that sly devil of a Krampus would be left rubbing their chinny chin chins over these. Drinking and driving a sled full of gifts is not recommended but….Its the Holidays, … Continue reading →

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HORSE OPERA: TIME TO CIRCLE THE WAGONS?

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Dave

“With the stakes raised so high, the heroes of such dramas are indeed often superheroic, near divinities. One man can outduel five others in a shoot-out (as in the Achilles and Patroclus ending of Unforgiven [dir. Clint Eastwood, 1992] or the final gunfight … Continue reading →

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BONFIRE OF THE DIVINITIES

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Dave

640 A.D. : According to legend, the caliph Omar burned all 200,000 volumes in the library at Alexandria in Egypt. In doing so, he said: “If these writings of the Greeks agree with the Book of God they are useless … Continue reading →