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“In a postmodern world where technology has created an amalgam intellect, where individuals are simultaneously anonymous and celebrity, where the engineered, yet unwritten social contract demands, more than ever before, we react to the spectacle of hyperreality as part of the day to day mechanics of what it means to live your life, to reveal your Authentic Self requires you Anti-Social Engineer the Hypermanipulated Self.”
Anti-Social Engineering the Hypermanipulated Self
Anti-Social Engineering the Hypermanipulated Self
Chasing philosophers through the ages, following our own ideas about the self, to dismantle both himself and modernity, the author brings in this tiny work, with candour, wisdom and depth, a dismantling of thought, a critique of the species, a pathway to virtue.”
"We are not talking about God here, nor even the grand scheme of society, we wonder about ourselves. By realizing when someone or something asks us to believe in it, in its intention, to create some reality out of an idea, we can begin to wonder about the value of following the rule."
"If modernity is the cause of complexity and systemic complexity is the cause of the rampant ineptitude that keeps rearing its ugly head, and we, in our infinite confusion, attempt only to counter this problem by adding further complexity, are we not just denying there is even a problem?"
From 2009 until it was sold to QANON Maga Heads, I wrote quite a few posts at abovetopsecret.com
If conspiracy theories are of interest to you, I remain quite pragmatic and logical, so you might be disappointed.
But after 2016 this place became an echo chamber. Click here
No More Suffering Fools
Several compendiums and anthologies of essays were published but none as complete as No More Suffering Fools. This contains everything published (and unpublished) from 2006 to 2013.
If you want to get only one book of mine, get this one.
It also contains Anti-Social Engineering the Hyper-Manipulated Self in its entirety.
ISBN 9781304624796
Last Human Being Sci Fi Novella ISBN 9781312926721
The book is available in three formats, for retail a 6x9 Trade Paperback, for cheap in a pocketbook exclusive to lulu, and for $2 as an e-book, in pdf.
Please go here to view all Brian's books at PostPaper.
The themes of Last Human Being, like all of my work, are examinations of programming, virtue and purpose. Really, it is a story of how war is not possible in a world where you can't lie. Our hero Cole figures out how to fight fire with fire and save mankind by ending the simplest, most useless war ever, based on a fear of the unknown.
It's also a love story, about family and survival that takes place in an interesting future where evolving humans have mental powers. LHB brings into question our appreciation of reality, our ability to bring our ideas into the real world and the confusion sometimes brought on by emotions.
It's also about individual sacrifice for the betterment of others, yet from within a prejudicial framework. We work to save all, except those whom we work against. This dichotomy is further exemplified in the identity crises created by having the war take place in a dream, not truly knowing the enemy, not even knowing if he, she or it is real.
Existential Intentionality in Society: A Timeline Intervention of the Social Contract ISBN 9781666202892 Buy PAPERBACK
Let love beat fear.
Let love beat fear.
Let us substantiate a Society that habituates the actions of love, caring, cooperation and community and disengages from the actions of fear, threats, competition and distinction.
For a short time, I tried my hand at podcasting: As a result, you can listen to me read this book in its entirety, to a soundtrack provided by Nine Inch Nails, for free HERE