Mind Wars
You didn’t think the mind war had ended, did you? Reading an article recently I was struck by the English language idiom “make sense.” This phrase has three definitions: make sense a) to have a clear meaning and be easy to understand Read this and...
Mind Wars
Posts have been thin on the ground. I’m in a funk. Due, no doubt, in part to Retrograde All the Things. One result is that everything I write just sounds like the most hypocritical crap. So I figure, why not leverage all this crankiness into a Mind Wars post. I...
Mind Wars
This post ties directly to the very first post in this series (side note, if you want to catch up on any of my series, the Index is the place to go). I ended that article with only a brief mention of memetic engineering — the act of deliberately crafting memes...
Mind Wars
I read 1984 at an extremely young and impressionable age. I think I was about 11 or 12, and very naive and sheltered (though clearly not censored in my reading). Note, this was long before the spate of young adult dystopian fiction that’s recently been so...
Mind Wars
Narratology was birthed in the mid-60s as a spinoff of linguistics. The field started with a structuralist or definitional approach (universal elements or themes of narrative, definitions of narrative elements, etc.). In the past couple of decades however, the field...
Mind Wars
This post has taken a really long time to finish. In part it’s because it’s been a rough couple of weeks, both out there in the world and in my household. It’s also because I’ve needed to employ the techniques in this email quite heavily during...
