Time is not money. This was, I admit with some embarrassment, an epiphany.  I have a job, and I'm earning money, but I want time.  We sell our time for money, but whoever has time has more than someone who has traded the same time for any amount of money.  So they are not members of the same . . . (More)

  I remain very interested in persuasion as a mode of power, and as one of the engines of history.  For the moment, I have little of my own to offer on this topic, but I am persuaded that like-minded souls may appreciate this psychological warfare site. I particularly enjoyed the psyops bl . . . (More)

 I remember, shortly after 9/11, the TV was on.  And wasn't it always on?  No airplanes, but plenty of TV.  Apparently, that is what we do.  I don't say that it's bad or good; I say that it is what we do, now that we are the people that we have become.  An off-screen announcer said, behind plain . . . (More)

 If you're like me - and you are - you probably pride yourself on your immunity to popular prejudices.  Of course, most of these idols were pre-smashed for you by some other, competing set of idol-makers.  Noam Chomsky taught you to distrust the media, but you trust him.  South Park makes fu . . . (More)

 Gee, it's nice to know that someone who understands the youth of today is willing to take a daring stand on behalf of the values of the Sixties (for money).  Witness, therefore, Lenny Kravitz shilling for Kohl's and Levi's in the name of Love - specifically, in the name of a Love Revolut . . . (More)