Professor Harbinger's School for Villains

If we look up from our day to day, what do we see? If we stop obsessing with the latest thing on the TV, or whatever opiate of the masses we are personally imbibing, what will we be forced to confront? I sat down once, and created a digital collage of all the species renderedContinue reading "The Big Picture"

The relationship between democrats, lobbyists, and voters is identical to the relationship between Facebook, its advertisers, and its users. The point isn't to serve voters. The point is exploit just enough that voters dont abandon the party: be a fraction less awful than the GOP. I've said this before, as have others, but we areContinue reading "Advertisers and Lobbyists"

The denizens of the mythic ecology that I am building here include a group I have named Monsters. Giants and chimera and abominations, the Monsters exist to challenge the adherent. They are to be overcome, endured, or avoided. They are not beings to be bargained with readily as are the rest of the Others. AndContinue reading "Stoic Monsters"

I've no desire to continue sulking about the injustice pouring out of the United States lately. I don't like there, and I've run out of mental energy regarding the cut rate villainy the fascists down south are enacting. Instead I want to talk about heroes, and an important concept in the Song of Seven: Archetypes.Continue reading "Fictional Historical"

The aphorism, do as I say and not as I do is the underlying framework for all hierarchical authority. The CEO gets more benefits and higher pay, besides to being held to different standards on attendance and dress code. Hierarchical governments create class systems and caste systems. They seek to justify these imbalances of rightContinue reading "Civilization and the Rule of Kings"