Athelstan the Woke

Posted on November 30, 2021
Image: Frontispiece of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert, showing King Æthelstan [924–39]. Via Wikimedia Commons.

I myself stopped using the term a while back.

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Talk with the Hand!

Posted on November 15, 2021
Image: Chirogram from John Bulwer's Chirologia, 1644. Via Wikimedia Commons.

I observed that the most effective communicators delivered the most histrionic performances. 

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Between Utopia and Disaster

Posted on November 11, 2021
Image: Still from Meta's Metaverse announcement video. October 28, 2021. Via Youtube.

The modern state is founded on a dream—the dream of perfect knowledge that secures perfect power.

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