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White Fire

December 2, 2010
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Reposted with Will’s permission from Vertical Searcher. I have walked to the border of fanaticism and looked out over the terrain without stepping on to it. I don’t need to. I can already feel the unstable edge of freedom and anarchy beneath my feet. Once you feel the truth, you realize it’s radical shit — [...]

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Why Voting Doesn’t Matter

November 5, 2010
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“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.” — Malcolm X Now that some of the dust has settled from the recent mid-term elections and the absurdity of “us and them” is starting subside, I need to explain that the US Government [...]

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A Speech for the President

October 5, 2010
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I wrote this speech for President Obama — mostly because it’s the type of speech I’d like to hear right now: “Fellow Americans, I stand before you today humbly because I am out of answers, and I need your help. When I look at the condition of this planet, I see our country leading the [...]

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How to Ignore Bullshit

August 31, 2010
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I’ve boiled bullshit ignorance down to a 2-step process: Recognize it as it happens. Let it slide off you, unaffected. Bullshit lurks in nearly every avenue of America waiting to strike innocent victims and assimilate its prey into yet another practitioner of nonsense. I call it The Bullshit Assimilation Project.  Recently I encountered one of [...]

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The Mind Battle

July 28, 2010

Do you ever feel like giving up? For the Americans, do you ever think of fleeing the country as a sort of consumerist refugee? Where would you go? What would you do? Is it possible to reconstruct a non-consumerist America? Or, is it better just to leave? The future of Freedom is in creation — [...]

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