I used to put my music player on random and I would marvel at the way the computer seemed to sense what I needed to hear. I now realize that I was simply projecting a human capacity for sensitivity and understanding on to a machine, but I don't think that that makes my relationship to the computer program any less legitimate. After all, isn't that what I do to the universe? I project my own intelligence and creativity onto a more or less random existence generator. I know that if I look for e... read more

In the old days, if someone suspected a merchant of any kind of foul play, they would no longer do business with that merchant. Today it is common knowledge that the companies we get our food from fill it with chemicals that are known and intended to influence us to consume them faster so that we have to buy more, yet we condone this and continue to purchase these low products. Many people say "well, we've got to eat" and they suppress their knowledge of how to provide food without going to t... read more

I've noticed that everyone's a hypnotist. We all have tricks for getting anyone to behave a certain way. it starts with our parents and siblings. We learn how to make them swoon, how to frustrate them, how to please them. Then we go to school and try our techniques out on our teachers, but that only lasts until our first recess, when we are plunged into a concoction of peers.At this point an entirely different world is opened up to us, and it is a frightful and delightful world of discovery a... read more