Now for something you’ll really like:

• Everybody wants a HAM radio to God. Here’s a map.
• Cool paper by MIT’s Max Tegmark on “Consciousness as a State of Matter.”
• This sort of thing is heating up, though establishment science’s buzzkill pushback is predictable, boring and, well…sort of unscientific, isn’t it?—via Scientific American.
• It may be mere synchronicity (used with advised irony) but Internets these days seem full of such heresies.
• Change seems to be afoot when venerable TED itself begins to look like the guardian of consensus:

• More heresy: Hon. Canadian Defense Minister (Fmr.) Paul Hellyer is tres old and he spins Hubbardy yarns. Yet, at one point, during a fraught and dangerous era, he was the go-to guy for defense of an advanced, first-world country. Now that he’s too old to give a damn and revealing what he assures us are fantastic secrets, he’s a head case.

I used to take a weekend now and then and head off into the woods, or a fallow field borrowed from a nearby farmer, and set up circumstances I hoped wold lead to my own alien abduction. ET never took the bait, alas. Still, it seems obvious the alone-in-the-universe crowd will look like idiots once time, event, or revelation resolve the question. I’ve no idea what form our fellow Milky Way residents take—animal, vegetable, mineral; intelligent, or chicken-dumb; ahead of us, or behind, in tech—but I do know if I were in Vegas and had to bet on black (yes) or red (no), I would…

• Things are so upside-down in the US that people are giving up on democracy. Sorry Jefferson, Jackson, et al. 3QuarksDaily‘s Aiken & Talisse are all, “Plato’s cool, dog. Just look around. People ain’t govern themselves, freelz.”
• Your mother would be so proud of how well you serve your masters!

Onward!

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Esquire raps with Kenneth Anger, the filmmaker. Along with many people of greater accomplishment and repute, I’m a fan of Anger’s—not for his films, so much (although they’re compelling)—but because he’s the Forrest Gump of Darkness. Identify some naughty in the 20th Century, and you’ll find him somewhere nearby.

Consider, also: when someone quotes Heidegger, or refers to him, outside an academic paper, I suspect immediately that person is a pretentious asshole. Heidegger suffers the Ayn Rand/Jesus problem: Heidegger per se?—fine. The problem is his fans suck. Their adoration borders upon obsessive, and they often use others’ familiarity with his work as a benchmark to identify peers who’re the problem. I mean, the man was an unrepentant Nazi, and they make him annoying. Get your Heidegger on:

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