You Read What I Read

One of those stories that instantly reframes what you know about the world, in many different ways. The history of shamanic practice, the substances used, the origins of those substances, the science used to determine all these things. There’s a lot to learn here.

This article is rife with all the language of Baudrillard's 'Simulacra and Simulation' but falls short of actually naming it. If reality is a continuous, analog experience, news stories are what makes it discrete and digital, to say nothing of digital technology's assistance in the matter. News stories are thus simulacra of a particular kind, and the notion of what's newsworthy defines a reality which is constructed by the news. The ubiquity of the news today has then led to the advent of the hyperreal - a reality that is in fact simulated, but we can hardly tell the difference, let alone escape.

A debate in and of itself is a discourse which can be refuted.

Is there any hope for archaeologists to discover a civilization that existed before humanity?

Really well written by Matt Jones, a romantic tragedy on the sacrifices made for progress and ambition.

By reading the article it is clear that this is merely a battleground, a part of a strategic war being directed by business concerns, and one that really should not be waged on traditional allies.

A bit like Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectic applied to socio-political theory.

I know the past few articles I've posted have been pretty antagonistic but this one is good, trust me.