Metarationalist Ephemera

I am usually a harsh critic of the concept of games, which I tend to find pointless, boring and ugly, save for some in exceptional social settings where the people I’m with aren’t well-versed in human and/or social sciences. Games imply that we abide by arbitrary rules for arbitrary purposes, all of which too often [...]

Do you understand this sentence? Just what do we understand? What is understanding? Just what do we know in the end? Without questions, implicit or explicit, comprehension holds no meaning. Even questioning – and rejecting – knowledge yields knowledge and not semantic void. There is simply no semantic void: everything within the human mind holds [...]

People in “civilised” societies seem to think that men and women are somehow two different species living on the same planet – and somehow “owning” that planet… but that’s a different issue. This post is more or less about radical feminism, and incidentally racism.

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” ~ Lewis Carroll

The phone and television have become part of cultures worldwide to the point where we barely notice them. The synergy between people and these media is such that when someone states that he/she is using either of them, nobody will take notice of it as being anything out of the most ordinary everyday life.

This near-poem was written between last Summer and August 25th of this year. The original concept stemmed from a warm Summer night at the family cottage. Most of the final revisions were done at Montreal’s Botanical Garden, which confered the necessary inspiration to me. It was originally designed to be the ending of a – [...]