Black Bag

“Disrupt everything.” The film centers on George who is absolutely singular about truth. We find George as a secret service agent then, naturally. The film plot opens with a conversation about a situation by the name of Severus. His wife, whom he works with, though not permitted to speak to about this, he does so […]

Babel

“If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. Let me be outraged and annihilated, but for one instant, in one being, let Your enormous Library be justified.” “The methodical task of writing distracts me from the present state of […]

Dyson

The Dyson sphere, a grand vision to encase the Sun and harness its vast energy, faces a gauntlet of challenges that make its completion by 2050 a Herculean task. The scale alone is mind-boggling—a structure spanning 150 million kilometers in radius demands materials beyond our current grasp, capable of enduring relentless solar radiation and cosmic […]

domi

From Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926): Freud’s revelation casts repetition as a shadowed dance with anxiety, a child’s unconscious rite to tame the wild echoes of experience. Jean Piaget recasts this as a luminous forging of mind, where infants, through sensorimotor loops—dropping, grasping, banging—wrest order from chaos, not to soothe a trembling heart but to scaffold a […]

KURT

“This impotence of nature sets limits to philosophy, and it is quite improper to expect the Concept to comprehend these contingent products of nature – and, as it is put, construct… them…Nature everywhere blurs the essential limits of species and genera by intermediate and defective forms, which continually furnish counter examples to every fixed distinction; […]

Glas

“because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places” Kennedy’s Justice Department, under Bobby, sent a formal demand in ‘62 to the American Zionist Council (AZC) to […]

omertà

28th Amendment – Public Retributive Justice and Safeguards Amendment Section 1. Recognizing that society generates a surplus of energy and resources beyond its basic needs, and affirming that such excess must be expended in a manner that reinforces state authority and deters heinous criminal conduct, the State is hereby empowered to employ public executions as […]

Prolegomena

“You Americans take jazz too lightly” – Ravel Immanuel Kant inaugurated modern transcendental philosophy by establishing that our knowledge is conditioned by the inherent structures of sensibility and understanding. The impulse to grasp what lies beyond mere sensory data can be traced back to the pre-Socratics—Parmenides and Empedocles—whose inquiries into the nature of being hinted […]

IBM

Expanding Perjury Laws: A Practical and Targeted Approach If lying were to be more strictly regulated, the most feasible approach would be expanding perjury laws beyond their current narrow application. Today, perjury is primarily limited to courtroom testimony and sworn legal statements, but expanding its scope could enhance accountability in politics, business, and media without […]

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Open

Baron James de Rothschild, founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family, married his niece Betty von Rothschild in 1824. Betty was the daughter of James’s older brother, Salomon Mayer Rothschild, who founded the Austrian branch of the family. This union exemplified the family’s commitment to consolidating power and resources within their own network. […]

Žižek

“¡Al maestro, cuchillada!” 1 Slavoj Žižek’s essay “Punching the Neighbor in the Face” critically examines Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the Other, exploring its limitations and contradictions. Žižek, in his characteristic provocative style, questions the primacy Levinas grants to the ethical responsibility toward the Other and offers a critique grounded in psychoanalysis, politics, and the complexities […]

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I do not have to wait. I cannot wait. The Union is here. This victory is real. This feeling we all share- it connects us to history. It connects us to God. Their greatest mistake? They underestimated God. This is a true victory- a victory steeped in truth, rooted in history. A triumph won legitimately. […]