If one could time travel to a St. Petersburg street in 1905, and ask a random revolutionary peasant, fresh to the city from the countryside, “What are you fighting for?” It is doubtful he would say, “We are seeking to create a peasant revolt, so as to establish Socialism. Which will be followed some years later by a revolt against us by the proletariat to then establish a glorious communist utopia that history will call the blessed fruit of the Great Russian Revolution.”
Instead, his answer might be something along the lines of, “Those other guys are major assholes!”
Through…
The modern Left has managed to embrace the far Left with a simple trick — calling it something else. Peasant revolts are now called BLM protests and are started over names like Michael Brown and George Floyd. A Dictatorship of the Proletariat has been renamed to Social Justice, then amplified by social media beyond all sense of reason. They’ve convinced a generation of university graduates that the threat of boots on the neck from right wing death squads, is a certain outcome unless we allow these so-called Leftists to police language; censor conservative views and change the definitions of words.
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When the word, “dimensions” pops up in sci-fi conversations, many people think of portals opening to other realities. Perhaps worlds where physical laws work differently; or where the sun is made of different base elements to ours — resulting in a world populated by metallic-skinned beasts. This multiverse-esqe notion of dimensions was characterized in the 2007 film, The Mist.
Based on the Stephen King novel, the movie told the story of a small town near a military laboratory. …
I believe in God. Also called the One True God; the God of Abraham; the Most High; Yahweh; Allah, along with a host of other names imposed by humans onto the omniscient deity whose true name is not really a name at all, but an elegant declaration of being — “I am who is”. A declaration of being that is consistent with the logical extrapolation that comes from asking; “Who could possibly name God?”
If those names conjure up images of bearded sky-daddies or is instantly repulsive to you, then you may as well stop reading now and continue the…
In the 2013 Steve Jobs biopic, ‘Jobs’ starring Ashton Kutchner, there was a poignant scene where Kutchner, as Jobs, was talking to Bill Gates. In the scene, Jobs vehemently chastises Gates for stealing some source code. He calls Gates; “a psychopathic, unimaginative criminal..”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM_I2uwOfXw
At the time, I remembering wondering what sort of legal trouble awaited the producers for what, to my ears at least, sounded like slander. I thought; “They’re talking about Bill Gates? As in the computer nerd? A psychopath? Seems a bit harsh” It felt like the writers were reaching into conjecture with that characterization of Gates…
For those who don’t know, the Hong Kong protests started nine weeks ago when a controversial amendment to the Basic Law (HK’s mini-constitution) was put forth that would allow for China to extradite suspects wanted for criminal prosecutions in China. Hong Kong, a former British colony, was handed back to China in 1997.
Many viewed this bill as an over-reach by China considering that one of the binding elements of the Basic Law was that the laws in Hong Kong would not change for 50 years. China has steadily increased its presence in the city since the handover but never…
Back in 1989 when Will Smith was still The Fresh Prince, he made a parody rap song called, “I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson.” In the video Will Smith is an average guy who, as the title suggests, suddenly thinks he could defeat then heavyweight boxing champion — Mike Tyson, in a boxing match. It will come to no surprise that Will Smith then proceeds to comically fail. And while only a parody, the song’s premise perfectly embodies the Dunning-Kruger effect.
In psychology, the Dunning-Kunning effect is a cognitive bias in which people of lower ability have illusory superiority…
Enoch’s Muse, finalist in the 2017 Proverse Prize for Unpublished Fiction, Non-Fiction or Poetry, was launched at the Helena May on Garden Road in Hog Kong on November 15th, 2018. The winner of the prize was also announced. I’ve transcribed my acceptance speech below.
Enoch’sMuse is a book about the curious crossroads between Christianity/ Hebrew mythology and science.
For this opening paragraph to make sense, skip to the 2:41 time mark in the video below. What you are witnessing there is inter-dimensional travel made possible by a higher form of life. Not an alien life, nor one that is from off-world. But just a higher form of the same stuff the fish is made of, that happens to understand more of the fish’s world than the fish does. Now imagine yourself as the fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvGfncPzt9Y&t=19s
The scientific equivalent of grammar-nazis are going to yell that humans and fish are technically in the same dimension, the 3rd dimension —…
This is my third year in the publishing industry and I’ve learned so much from this process. Chief among them are two things I wish I had known three years ago. 1) Avoid self-publishing and 2)Your book is only as good as the hard work you, yourself, put into getting it out there.
Before, I had thought that a publisher would wave a wand and instantly have a book in every book shop and on the tongue of every major reviewer. Sadly, only three or four of the major publishers have the heft to achieve this and if you’re published…
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Sergio Monteiro — novelist, teacher, writer, thinker — author of ‘Enoch'sMuse’ and ‘Other American Dreams’ https://www.facebook.com/Enochs-Muse-277209529448396
