"Around the world, from Western Europe to the Far East, many see the United States as arrogant, hypocritical, self-absorbed, self- indulgent and contemptuous of others..."
Americans are dearly loved abroad
(Thanks to Mike)

Wine snobs

Detention camps for US citizens stripped of rights

A big lan

fingerprints

monkeynip

Polynomial Time Prime Algorithm

The purpose of leaks.

Tales of Plush Cthulhu
(Thanks to Mike)

The Skeptic's Annotated Bible

"Jung and the Lost Gospels" by Stephan Hoeller mp3 lecture

"It may truly be said that the blackest and bloodiest records that history can show us are the attacks of the Orthodox Church upon the Gnostic mystics."

Bin Laden and Cthulhu

Terry Marks

Gnostic Webring

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Biases of the Ear and Eye: 'Great Divide' Theories, Phonocentrism, Graphocentrism & Logocentrism

"We have lost the ability to penetrate below the phenomenal aspect of the "kairoi" or moments of time -- that is, the complex of people, events, ideas, organisms, and objects that constitute human experience -- and to perceive reality... The result, according to Ellul, is that "shadows" become the essence of one's life and thinking... He gets used to living in complete incoherence, because all his intellectual activity is taken up with these visions, themselves without a past and without a future, without any substance even in the present..." --Jacques Ellul and the Problem of Communication

"Jacques Ellul wrote about a perceived takeover of humanity by technology in The Technological Society way back in 1954. This book is still worth reading by anyone interested in the things that orthodox mass-media advertisements for progress don't tell us about technology, but you have to steel yourself for an uncompromising and bleak perspective. If you think of this book as a forecast of the late nineteen nineties, written by a visionary of the 1950s, it's more than enough to give you the willies."

More on Ellul, and yet more...

"The Unabomber borrowed heavily, says Foster, especially from the writings of Jacques Ellul. It was in February 1965 that American readers were first introduced to Ellul's Technological Society in that magazine. Kaczynski wrote his brother David that he was deeply impressed by Ellul's writings which closely mirrored his own beliefs. These ideas pop up all over Kaczynski's writings, letters and manifesto..."

Ellul is also referenced in the first memo of The Illuminatus Trilogy... hmmm....

Some of Ellul's writing is available online here