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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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BooksClassicCommentary

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
May 25, 2018 Merri

Left or Right – The Utopian Nightmare

In contemporary political discourse, the terms left and right are thrown around so often that they’ve nearly degraded to the

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BooksOld StuffReviews
May 18, 2018 Merri

REVIEW: Why Liberalism Failed – Patrick J. Deneen (Yale University Press, 2018)

It doesn’t take a genius to note the decrepit state of modernity (take, for example, this blog).  About as cliché,

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Old StuffUncategorized
May 15, 2018 Merri

The Political e-Celeb Menace

It’s no surprise that popularity breeds contempt, often from complete nobodies.  Envy is commonly assumed to be the primary driver

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BooksOld StuffReviews
May 11, 2018 Merri

REVIEW: SJWs Always Double Down – Vox Day (Castelia House, 2017)

Rewind for a second.  It’s 2016 again.  Donald Trump is allegedly in last-place during the Republican primaries.  Google has been

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Old Stuff
February 20, 2018 Merri

Just Let Toddlers Vote

In the wake of the recent school shooting in Florida, a particular group of survivors have been received as youth

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Old Stuff
February 16, 2018 Merri

Banning Porn to Own Libs

A few days ago, the New York Times ran a piece by Ross Douthat entitled “Let’s Ban Porn”.  Given that

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Old StuffReviews
February 9, 2018 Merri

A Supermodel Frankenstein: Max Richter’s Recomposition of Vivaldi

The flighty repetition of a flurry of violins and winds, blurring all together like the flutter of a sea of

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Old StuffReviews
February 6, 2018 Merri

REVIEW: Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)

Ostensibly a film rife with race-baiting, intending to highlight the white liberal elite’s crypto-antebellum attitudes toward blacks, Jordan Peele’s Get

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ClassicCommentaryOld Stuff
January 30, 2018 Merri

Find Your Own Van Goh

There’s a distinct feeling of dread that accompanies crossing the threshold into the contemporary art galleries of a metropolitan museum. 

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Old StuffUncategorized
January 26, 2018 Merri

Chinese Catholicism

Last year, it came to be announced that Pope Francis had begun talking with the communist Chinese government over the

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