“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.” – E.O. Wilson The luddites were the original cassandra’s of cyberaugery (phophetic warning of our digital futures) warning us of how technology in the wrong hands could replace us or even make our lives worse in the long…
Yesterday I watching Reuters news and a segment came on talking about bees and how if we don’t genetically modify the species they will be gone and with it, our entire food supply. What a ridiculous idea right? The ultimatium that if we don’t follow technological progress through a capitalist paradigm, let alone scientism, we’re…
Tom Hirons, one of my favorite poets for his poem ‘Sometimes A Wild God’, wrote a statement the other day about leaving social media to write his next book. In it he calls empire, ‘the Devouring one’ and I couldn’t think of a better way to describe our current culture. We become insatiable whether for…