Our culture is dead, and like all zombies it cannibalises its own past forms, in our case the cultural world of the 1980s which our civilisation replays, in increasingly degraded forms, over and over again, creating a nightmarish pastiche of the world we departed four decades ago. From the pop music of The Weeknd and Taylor Swift, to The […]
In this an excerpt from a newspaper column by C. S. Lewis, first published in 1958 and later included in a collection called God In The Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, the reader is forced to confront the prospect that extremely limited freedom awaits us in a world run as a technocratic welfare state.
Author Laments Audacity of Rock Icons Whistling Past Their Own Graveyards When viewing such scenes as this ghastly phantasmagoric nightmare of seemingly animated corpses slopping through a 50+ year-old catalog beneath effigies of their recently dead drummer, the best musician in the band, I feel an unease leaning toward revulsion. If anyone’s got a […]
Local Author Discovers 50 Year-Old Truth-Drop in SF Novel I first read The Lathe of Heaven, a fine science fiction novel by the inestimable writer and thinker Ursula K. Le Guin, as a curious teenager and fan of such speculative fiction. I read the book after watching a television adaptation which had compelled my imagination, […]
What could possibly promulgate more misinformation than a social media platform with algos designed to promote groupthink through the throttling or sharing of select information? The gatekeepers are corporate social messengers, all right, and the message they promote cannot be trusted. Resist.
