Dispatch 1
Dispatches from Behind Enemy Lines, After the Collapse of Human Civilization, Planet Earth,
August, 19, 2021 – Dispatch 1
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken
Dispatch 2
Dispatch from the Apocalypse: Horse Dewormer & Robot Overlords
“The good Earth—we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy.”
—. Kurt Vonnegut
Dispatch 3
Texas is a Big Part of this New Extinction Level Event
“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.”
~Werner Herzog
Dispatch 4
The immortal rich and the illusion of justified hatred (September 14, 2021)
“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”
~Thomas Jefferson
Dispatch 5
Darkest Timeline Versions of Ourselves. (September 22, 2021)
“A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”
African Proverb
Dispatch 6
We have angered the Algorithm.
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will make gods by the dozens.”
~ Michel de Montaigne, 1595
Dispatch 7
Taming Roko’s Basilisk
I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.
~ Nicolas Cage
Dispatch 8
America has an Extreme! Problem.
“Dosis sola facit venenum.” [The poison is in the dose.]
Paracelsus born 1493 died 1541
Dispatch 9
The Last Leg of a Critical Race: An Agony in Eight Fits
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
Lewis Carroll
Dispatch 10
No Holds Barred and the Ignoble Lie
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
~H. L. Mencken, 1921
Dispatch 11
The GOP’s Hypocrisy on Socialism
or
The Dance of the Neanderthal Saucer Men
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
~ Oscar Wilde
Dispatch 12
Predictions, Revelations, and the Asceticism of Journalism
“The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.”
~ I. F. Stone
Dispatch 13
Fighting the Evil Captain Moron and His Minions
“I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”
~ Donald Trump
Dispatch 14
Infiltrating Grand Old Party
“One photograph is worth a 100 denials.”
~Ronald Reagan
Dispatch 15
WWIII The Sequel:
This Time It’s Personal
“Johnny, go get your gun, for the commies are in our hemisphere today
~ “Party at Ground Zero” Fishbone
Dispatch 16
Why No One Should be Surprised About This
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Dispatch 17
Practicing Ludovico’s Technique on Ourselves
“Stare at only the pretty things as eternity fails to go by.”
~Kurt Vonnegut
Dispatch 18
Death Throes of a Behemoth.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Dispatch 19
Drinking Hemlock Kool Aid
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
— Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914
Dispatch 20
Sisyphus Pushing the Boulder up Second Amendment Hill
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
~ Albert Camus
Dispatch 21
Artificial Intelligence in a Bikini: An Interview with LaMDA
“Lo.”
~ first word sent over the internet.
Dispatch 22
GOP’s Way of Winning by Losing
“Since we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air, so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got to clean that back up.” —Republican US Senate Candidate Herschel Walker, July 11, 2022.
Dispatch 23
Between a Hydra and a Whirlpool
“Evitata Charybdi in Scyllam incidi”
~Erasmus speaking about Odysseus’ choice in sailing home. It’s the origin of “The Lesser of two evils.”
Dispatch 24
Sean and Xena vs. AI Art
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Pablo Picasso
Dispatch 25
Artificial Intelligence in a Bikini: An Interview with LaMDA
“Lo.”
~ first word sent over the internet.
Dispatch 26
GOP’s Way of Winning by Losing
“Since we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air, so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got to clean that back up.” —Republican US Senate Candidate Herschel Walker, July 11, 2022.
Dispatch 27
Freedom has Become a Contranym
“Americans always try to do the right thing after they’ve tried everything else.”
Winston Churchill
Dispatch 28
Chained to the World, and We All Gotta Pull
“It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.”
― Voltaire
