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SPOTLIGHT: Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (1961; 1970, Faber & Faber) & Andrei Tarkovsky (1972, Mosfilm)

April 28, 2025 Merri
Artificial Society
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society II

March 28, 2025 Merri
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REVIEW: The MANIAC – Benjamin Labatut (Penguin, 2023)

February 22, 2025 Merri
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Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
Artificial Society
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society II

March 28, 2025 Merri
Tolkien art literature
BooksClassicCommentary

Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
AI NPC machine learning
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society

December 16, 2023 Merri
COVID conspiracy theory
ClassicCommentary

The Inverted Conspiracy Theory

August 7, 2021 Merri
Old Stuff
October 26, 2018 Merri

Are Video Games Art?

Spend enough time around internet forums and video games and you’ll encounter the same tired pseudo-intellectuals that pretend to philosophize

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Old StuffUncategorized
October 19, 2018 Merri

Assassin’s Creed and the Liberal Narrative

Now I’m going to talk about a video game. I just completed a run-through of some the old Assassin’ Creed

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Old StuffUncategorized
October 12, 2018 Merri

Goodbye, Intellectual Dork Web

This piece was prompted by one of this blogger’s favorite whipping posts: Jordan B. Peterson’s credibility and incomprehensibility.  Those of

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Old Stuff
October 5, 2018 Merri

The Tyranny of Morality by Consent

Stop.  You’re in your mid-twenties, bored, somewhat educated, and free on a Friday night.  Your friends invite you to go

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Old StuffUncategorized
September 28, 2018 Merri

Tattoos, Body Modification, and the Modern Interest in Destroying Yourself By Consent

There used to be a time when it was common practice to teach our children how to properly respect our

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Old Stuff
September 21, 2018 Merri

Godless Traditionalism is a Non-Starter

Atheism, while not necessarily a purely modern phenomenon, remains a staple of the Modern aesthetic.  All forms of religious belief

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Old Stuff
September 14, 2018 Merri

The Internet Itself Might Be the Problem

It’s no secret that Silicon Valley is, more or less, left-wing.  Every tech giant still around, shaped the internet into

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Old Stuff
September 7, 2018 Merri

“The Writer is a Senior Official in the Trump Administration.”

Yesterday, The New York Times dropped a controversial anonymous op-ed piece which stated, in just under a thousand words, that

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Old Stuff
August 31, 2018 Merri

The Church is in Full Tilt: The Abuse Scandal

The sexual abuse scandal has erupted from a wildfire into a blazing inferno for the Catholic Church, having broken out

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Old Stuff
August 24, 2018 Merri

Censorship, Freedom, and Liberal Retardation

Free speech is back on the menu, apparently, this time with our favorite Texan, Alex Jones, thrust into the role

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