Empire's Fall, or A Child's Arsenal Of Stories (part 1)
i wrote a book during the occupy wall street movement. i finished it just as it was finished: the movement a headless mass, what had been its strength proved to be its undoing; the parasitic layer of...
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so here, after the blurb on the back of the book--itself a crucial chapter for the ensuing stories to ultimately cohere--after the dustcover's inside flaps with actual reader reactions in front...
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here is the next salvo of entries from my unpublished novel, Empire's Fall. now the going begins to get rough as contentious subject matter and language is introduced. the geiger counter begins to...
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my unpublished novel continues with a framing device designed to artfully excuse the wildly apocryphal fable that follows; a fable that will become the backbone of the book as its fictive world is...
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i tend to see all fiction as arguments from analogy. every piece ever written has a base of assumptions from which its narrative proceeds and this procession inevitably reaches an etiological...
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like it or not, stories teach. stories give context to content and thus make it meaningful and therefore memorable and even actionable. a lot of writers resent this fact and instead strive to render...
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copyright was originally no more than the right to copy. publishers were awarded this right by the author. it had nothing to do with protecting intellectual property. it had everything to do with...
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when i wrote these next two pieces, i was keenly aware how few knew where we were or how we'd gotten there. since snowden's revelations, which came a couple of years later, things have changed, but...
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the social contract needs to be rewritten. submitting to an imaginary majority since it's viewed as an actual majority and believing an actual majority simply must rule because reasons is patently...
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legal fictions are the spackle which smoothes over a pathological adherence to precedent. they are not reality-based; they are an arbitrary attempt to preserve bad choices made in a time before which...
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steve jobs was a salesman. that's the beginning and end of him. he was a very good salesman, arguably the best, certainly one of the best, but that's all he ever was. he had no talent for coding. no...
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deserving of it or not, american jurisprudence demands not just respect, but deference. subservient complicity is a requirement for it to even function. reasoned disagreement is dismissed in favor of...
View ArticleEmpire's Fall, or A Child's Arsenal Of Stories (part 13)
8/13/2011/Representative Democracy“Who are you?”“I represent you.”“No, you don’t. I represent myself.”“Not so. I officially represent you. In all official capacities, I am you. The very best of you, in...
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