Epistemic Ingemination

Truth becomes known, always.

In this case, it becomes known about 30 years earlier than it might’ve normally been known after being begrudgingly declassified. This is realtime. It is an amazing moment.

Since we own this truth that is done in our name, and since it is a bucket of icewater in the face of business as usual, I strongly support it.

We *have* to work together with those people. They *have* to work together with us. Now we know what we’re working with. All of us.

Damage? There’s no “damage” done here. There’s inconvenience done here. There’s exposure for gamesters. Perhaps some folks might have an early end to their life due to this. But I am inclined to think that no innocents will see that fate.

The net result will be a foundational change in the manner that business has been done. If we have the horse sense to see what this represents.

Spread it far and wide; yell it from the rooftops.

Apropos of the Realist post a couple of days ago; an interview with Lenny Bruce. Starts on page one and you then have to jump to page three. This was 1960, and it has more concentrated insight than is possible these days. And it is as contemporaneous to our time as it can be.

The Realist interview with Lenny Bruce

This is neat. We now have an archive of every issue of Paul Krassner’s The Realist magazine.

THE REALIST ARCHIVE PROJECT

Just a step forward into reality after the election. A very good read — and a correct one.

Democrats didn’t lose the battle of 2010. They won it. – By William Saletan – Slate Magazine

Hello world…

Well, I’ve come back over here and moved this to a new server (or rather a new webserver instance.) Man. A guy goes away for a few months an all of a sudden ~300 spammers have registered as users and 37,000 posts are awaiting moderation.

What I did was delete all of the users except me; your comments should still be up. (There’s not really any need to register as a user; I’m not selling anything, and as soon as your first comment is approved, you can comment freely from there on out.)

Anyway, it’s my intent to start writing over here again. I got caught up in Facebook for a while, and while that fun & such, I like this format better. It’s difficult to express oneself in 720 characters or less, and ultimately one ends up inside the digital equivalent of a chicken coop. Perhaps I’ll muse upon that subject at length sometime, but tonight is not the night.

In any case, I am looking forward to seeing all of you again as you stumble back over here and check in now & then.