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Niall Ferguson cautioned that empires unravel from within when the institutions meant to sustain them weaken under the strain of their own inefficacy, eroding public trust as they cease to fulfill their intended purpose. The American empire has not yet disintegrated, but its foundations have been critically undermined. Once destabilization reaches a tipping point, the… Continue reading The Guardrails Are Gone: How Institutional Power’s Decline Will Be the Death of US All
I don't mean your clothes succumbing to centripetal forces during the spin cycle. I am referring to the mass churning of content that has reached a nauseating crescendo - everywhere and all the time. Your inbox, the local deli, department store, tvOS - stuff is just being ejaculated onto us in a streaming orgy of… Continue reading Rubbish in Rapid Rotation
Felix Saxa sat down with Renard Baudrillard to discuss his project "Digital Fossil." The following is a transcript of their discussion. Felix : Welcome, dear listeners, to another edition of our podcast "Shooting the Sh*t and Eating Some Food." Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Renard Baudrillard, an artist who rejects that label… Continue reading An Interview with Renard Baudrillard on The Digital Fossil
In late 2009 I took a job on a military camp in the Horn of Africa. The initial experience was humbling; cot for a bed, no personal internet access, communal showers and toilets, hot sun on fair skin. The work was good, and fulfilling. The host nation was and remains one of the poorest on… Continue reading Out of America
A Poem by River Dempsey Most Eloquently Composed Upon the Occasion of Hector Dupaix's Ill-Tongued Reproach of Those Esteemed Individuals Who, in Their Exercise of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, Have Chosen to Identify in the Likeness of Hoses; Addressing Such Maligning as an Offense to Reason and Nature, and Rendering in Verse… Continue reading The Hose
Felix Saxa sat down with Hector Dupaix to discuss his recently published book. The following is a transcript of their discussion. Felix Saxa: Welcome, dear listeners, to another edition of our podcast "Shooting the Sh*t and Eating Some Food." Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Hector Dupaix, a thought-provoking philosopher whose new book,… Continue reading An Interview with Hector Dupaix on Navigating a Polarized World
Your smartphone or wearable chimes with a reminder to take a few moments to breathe. You open up your Wim Hof Method Breathing & Cold™ app—"download it; it's good stuff"—to begin brrrrrreathing in relaxation and breathing out stress. For a couple of minutes, depending on your skill level and what's going on in your life,… Continue reading To Be Still Or To Strive
So, you’re offended. Really upset about what someone said about a subject you hadn’t thought about in a while, eh? We’ve been pissing each other off for centuries but the uptick in seemingly genuine offense given is absolutely peaking. There is a popular quote making the social media rounds that reads “The more easily you… Continue reading The Offended
And let the adults take over. I'm using an expletive and all caps because that is the volume and tenor of the dialogue today and we need to raise our voices above the shrieking vampires. Those who are tearing down posters of kidnapped Israelis and those who are calling for the flattening of Gaza have… Continue reading Both Sides Need to STFU
We are all naturally attuned to and therefore familiar with cyclicalities. Day gives way to night until the sun rises again, the moon repeatedly journeys around the earth, the tides' continuous ebb and flow, the magnetic poles, and so on. And it's not just nature - business has its cycles, fashion, wealth, empires, moods, etc.… Continue reading Stuck
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