Common Enemy. Re-Published.

Now in the final months of his presidency, Obama and his administration have moved to strengthen the guidelines and legal framework for the US government’s extrajudicial killing. The kind that is accomplished by way of flying robots that rain death from the sky. Rather than reduce the extent to which the US military uses this […]

Come Again?

The sense that we are protagonists in our own movie is not just instilled culturally. It comes written in our genes, forged over millions of years of mammalian evolution. The paramount importance natural selection has placed on our survival has led us to believe our survival is important, that giving it up for another is a great sacrifice. Along with the genes that led to our instinct towards community, for in-group out-group behavior, survival behavior leads entire cultures to indulge in that self affirming narrative.

The Universe is a Dick. Re-published.

Reason number one thousand seven hundred and eleven why life is devoid of any meaning and all the better for it: The universe is a dick. While being in and of itself the fabric and the laws that allow conscious beings to exist, it has a thousand and one ways to wipe out any and […]