Psychohistory 101: Part two – summary, and a word on interventions

That previous one was, indeed, somewhat rambling. For which I apologise. Call it the lateness of the hour, perhaps. Here is a brief recap, then. What I have come to call dystopians are essentially and simply those irredeemable aberrations produced as a consequence of evolution having a random element to it. They never amount toContinue reading “Psychohistory 101: Part two – summary, and a word on interventions”

Psychohistory 101: Dunbar’s number & how dystopia happens

Welcome to Psychohistory 101, my dearest things! This essay might also be subtitled ‘how did things get like this?’ or ‘why is the world so awful?’ or something along similar lines. There is an increasing number of humans (I’ve noticed – I’m interested in conspiracy theories – this site is a good start, the writingContinue reading “Psychohistory 101: Dunbar’s number & how dystopia happens”

Why am I interested in conspiracy theories?

It’s a fair question, of course. For the unsuspecting, they might question my psychological aspect and look at me bizarrely. For others, however, it’s understandable. Those others are perfectly aware of being surrounded by a fog of propaganda, as well as the – to us at least – indisputable fact that the so-called leaders ofContinue reading “Why am I interested in conspiracy theories?”

Starseeds and the Brookings Report

In a kind of typical fateful way (I should be used to that now) I have been prompted and provoked again. This time by an article in ‘The Conversation’ in which a group of ‘psychologists’ do a standard hit-piece on the so-called Starseed phenomenon. I usually call Starseeds ‘Visitors’ – it has fewer ‘New Age’Continue reading “Starseeds and the Brookings Report”

Quiet Times & the spiritual answer to the Fermi paradox

Here’s another story for you. Suppose Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise set out on their five-year mission to chart all the systems in this galactic sector (50 lightyear radius, about 1500 stars – obviously they can’t really visit all of them at warp factor seven (343 times lightspeed), but let’s say humanity sent outContinue reading “Quiet Times & the spiritual answer to the Fermi paradox”

The impending catastrophe, part one

This one goes out to the dystopians. Who are not the ones I love. An underlying assumption, if I can put it that way, behind everything I have been saying is the reality of the so-called ‘Zoo hypothesis’ – that’s to say this galactic sector is teeming with intelligent, spacefaring civilisations. Likewise, the intimately relatedContinue reading “The impending catastrophe, part one”