Sunday, January 07, 2007

ö Dedroidification Thanks to a Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing post: Web Consciousness Video Collection, I followed the dots to Dedroidification's Streaming Videos linkfest, which is an awesome collection not just for "consciousness" but also for several other subjects. Drilling up from the vids page, I found something to quote at this Reality Tunnel page:  The concept of reality tunnels fits in nicely with the scientific concept of confirmation bias by which we tend to notice and assign significance to observations that confirm our prior beliefs, while filtering out or rationalizing away observations that do not fit with what we believe. This helps to explain why reality tunnels are usually transparent to their inhabitants. [...] Through various techniques one can break down old reality tunnels and impose new reality tunnels by removing old filters and replacing them with new ones, new perspectives on reality - at will. This is achieved through various processess of deprogramming... more  Too bad the site's all in quite small Comic Sans (oh well). I had to font-size-up a couple of clicks before snapping the dead droid with caption. permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?

ö Confronting the Empire - The time for talk is over [ANTIWAR.com]  Enough already with the policy analyses, the measured rhetoric, the hat-in-hand appeals to the Czar. It's time to confront - and bring down - the War Party. [...] Washington is the problem, and the solution is to make that city ungovernable, and a thoroughly unpleasant place for our ruling elite to be. If they won't listen to the voice of the hinterland, and suffer from delusions of invincibility, then they need to be reminded of their own vulnerability. By descending on Washington, and literally camping out, the millions who detest this war could make the city unlivable, or, at least, make it impossible for the mandarins of power to any longer discount us humble plebeians. [...] We must act, just as Cindy Sheehan and her brave cohorts did recently when they interrupted the Democratic self-love-fest and refocused attention on the most important issue of them all: the war. And, no, hearings conducted by John Murtha don't fit the bill: if they won't cut off the funding for the war, then it's time they were cut off from their pleasant lives and illusions of impregnable insularity. Radical measures are called for. The time for talk is over: you can't reason with these people, and I've given up trying. The time for action is now. more  permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?