Info-Infinity
For all the information we absorb, willingly or not, how much information affects our lives in any meaningful way? The Age of Information should not to be confused with an increase in knowledge. We may soon require info-landfills, where garbage bag after garbage bag of information once considered critical reaches critical mass, the stench of bleeding ink luring pigeons and vultures, which spin away into flying ones and zeroes.

The Idle Info-Peasant
According to Idle Theory, "It is in this idle time that humans can do as they wish, rather than as they must, and they can think, talk, and play - i.e. act as free moral agents. In Idle Theory, humans are seen as part-time free moral agents, only free to the extent that they are idle." This idea coincides with my own, which is that our self-proclaimed "busyness" is in fact "programmed" into

Ambient Anxiety
I've tried just about every anti-depressant in hopes of reducing my free-stabbing anxiety, as most anti-depressants promise to provide some relief. Only one SSRI has had any effect, that being Prozac. More specifically, Prozac didn't reduce anxiety but rather increased my confidence to a degree that let me pull my anxiety out and send it into the atmosphere, where it hovered like air pollution: ambient-anxiety. Unfortunately, I didn't know at

Why I Envy Klaus Kinski
A few times, I've mentioned to someone that I envy Klaus Kinski, and they look at me as if I've lost my mind. That's exactly why I envy Klaus Kinsi: I never lose my mind. How I would love to howl and shriek in German, half-strangle a few enemies, and destroy entire bathrooms while locked inside for days. All of these things appeal to me. They appeal to me because such actions remain locked inside me with a combination I can't crack.

The All-Absorbent Ism
Every ism is eventually superseded, except capitalism (apparently) and postmodernism (which by definition supersedes itself, leaving...you tell me). The problem with the ism is the occasional necessity to quickly rebut one person's use of an ism, nearly forcing the employment of a pro or con ism. Person 1: "I believe in capitalism." I suppose Person 2 could say, "I don't." But it will get much more entertaining if Person 2 states,