Marc | September 7, 2008
Years ago, when I was researching Western Magic, I came across a then-obscure book called the Kybalion (my copy is from the 1940′s). It is a masterpiece of the esoteric genre; a genre designed to hide information in “plain sight”. Reading the comments on Wired in response to Steve Featherstone’s recent Harpers article brought the [...]
Marc | September 2, 2008
One of the more interesting ethical problems in the Anthropologists cannon is the question of when you are required to lie. For me, it is not only three particular question of when you must lie but, in reality, the perceptual assumptions that structure that “ethical” injunction. This wasn’t much of a problem for me in [...]
Marc | August 19, 2008
For over a year, I have been using the term “Witch Hunts”to refer to the actions of some people who are violently opposed to the existence on the Human Terrain System. It is important that people realize that when I use that term, it is not being used in the normal meaning of political hyperbole [...]
Marc | August 1, 2008
The personal is political Carol Hanish (?) I don’t usually write about politics. This isn’t because I don’t have strong political beliefs (I do) but, rather, because I prefer to devote my time and energies to other things. This wasn’t always the case, as a few of my close friends know, and I like to [...]
Marc | July 16, 2008
so when one dispassionately and accurately speaks of cluster bombing, depleted uranium, torture at Abu Ghraib, and laying siege to civilian population centres, the response is not that it is just “rhetoric.” Max Forte at openanthropology (NB: there is something weird with the cascading style sheets which interferes with italic script so I have changed [...]
Marc | July 14, 2008
In a recent blog post, Max Forte dissected the Human Terrain System’s (HTS) Top Misconceptions page. Now, in general, I have not been very kind about most of the attacks on the HTS and Max’s post is definitely an attack. It is, however, qualitatively different, in my opinion, from the majority of other attacks for [...]
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