Author: Khannea Sun'Tzu

(link) Israel is a very peculiar nation. Israel as a very peculiar nation is doing very peculiar things we have come to dismiss as unthinkable for a democracy. Democracies do not do the kind of things Israel is doing, or so we believe. Of course Israel is under considerable existential threat from it’s neighbors, but…

Nope they are not. At least not in the Netherlands. This is the position of the SP (Socialist Party) on Basic Income. SP-Tweede Kamerlid Paul Ulenbelt: ‘Een onvoorwaardelijk basisinkomen is een sympathiek idee, maar ook niet meer dan dat. Socialisten vinden dat iedereen zijn bijdrage moet leveren aan de maatschappij. Dat wij produceren en diensten…

(By Extropia DaSilva) Maritme Admiralty Law is what is known as the law of the water. It is superceded by civil law and only applies to those that willingly contract themselves into it. The definition of Admiralty Law is a body of private international law governing the relationships between private entities which operate vessles on…

If you identify as “religious” and have read my previous articles or book chapters dealing with religious issues, you almost certainly count me as an enemy, not a friend, an atheist bigot lacking empathy—or even worse. And I understand why you feel like that. After all, I still refer to Religion as A serious delusiomal…

Democracy is in a crisis. Democracy in most countries does not deliver. While there many reasons for this malfunction, the most important reason democracy is not working particularly well is singular – special interest. Right now lobbyists has taken over the political decissionmaking process. In many cases this process is clearly a form of political…

We can print houses now. I written about this earlier, describing specifically for my country the potential to engineer a sharp deflation in home prices. In the Netherlands home prices are extremely and unnaturally inflated because of a confluence of government, industry and speculation mechanisms. It is now taken for granted that a house “that…

The current state of the economy is a parable for non-reality. It isn’t even  a proper metaphor, it’s in itself a poetic allegory or allusion. Probably not even children’s rhyme. Economy is a pretense, a figleaf, a back alley theater making drunken show that has no bearing on reality. Still the notables court it’s smudged halls and…

In the last few months there has been a spade of articles warning us for civil unrest.  The reasons for this civil unrest might several years ago have been popularly attributed to phenomenon such as technological unemployment, resource depletion, immigration, banker shenanigans, political gridlock (and mismanagement), lousy media, outsourcing or climate change.  But the money is now…

Referring to this party in club Panama. The Unleashed party was well-organized, beautiful. The music was excellent. It was not nearly as much a squallorous mess as Wasteland. The party was inundated with searingly beautiful 20s 30s 40s year olds. Most people there were visibly high on speed, GHB and ecstacy. There was some minor…

Let me speculate here about the concept of “Facebook” as a national utility for the Netherlands. I do realize the amount of people using Facebook in the Netherlands is still not a majority. Oh excuse me it is. That places adoption rates for Facebook at a level where we might conclude Facebook is an inalienable…

This is a largely NSFW and not child safe post. Proceed with caution. Early November 2014 I was talking to an old friend on chat and I mentioned Wasteland, and that I might go April 2015. I assumed Wassteland 2014 was already past. Then I read the actual date and my heart chokes in my…

Do I exist? I think I do. Well for those who know me, Facebook was annoyed with me after I posted a video of me dancing “in fetish gear” on the Wasteland party. My account was restricted from Monday 2 December onwards and after some clumsy interactions this situation seemed to tighten and escalate. When…

In most of the western world we have a prevailing societal model of self-reliance and personal responsibility. It’s easy to see the limitations of this model – people get old and sick, most people have emotional or other vulnerabilities and significant periods in our life we are just unable to protect ourselves. To engender protected…

In the year 2014 A.D, the human species may have expanded completely out of bounds. To transcend boundaries is within out nature. That is what we do. It is ordained. It is written. We appear to have transcended my limits imposed upon us by nature. Nature imposes, not out of will, because because of the…

Facebook takes complaints from users about nudity seriously. So when I posted an article about the applications of Oculus Rift in a few dozen groups on Facebook, I made the header image for the article not depicted. The problem is that Facebook ignores attempts at making header images for articles not visible, and when you…

After a lengthy discussion with a friend I started brainstorming. Based on that brainstorming session I wrote one of my messy impromptu emails to a consular office of the US. To my utter surprise I got a response. Hi I am talking to a US citizen client who wishes to remain anonymous at this stage….

The most stupid and morally depraved thing Singularitarians and Transhumanists can conclude is that a Singularity is one giant Rapture of guaranteed goodness. This is simply not true. To make the claim that The Singularity MUST be good, like some kind of ontological destiny guaranteed by the cosmos itself, is an exercise in willful ignorance….

Why would I regard some movie such as “The Purge” as anything other than irrelevant violence porn? The Purge is a movie set in a near future Dystopia United States, Nine (!) years after a nonviolent coup. In the fictional universe of the Purge one night every from year 7:00 PM March 21 to 7:00…

I may appreciate individual Palestinians (or Arabs) as dear friends (or occasionally lovers) but you can’t expect me to actually like the culture, their religion and their politics. I’d rather not deal with Palestinians or Arabs, insofar these people exhibit their transitional cultural preferences. I don’t like Arab men because by and large I have…

Let’s face it. Basic Income seems unthinkable in most capitalist western democracies. Most voters wouldn’t want it, corporations sure as hell don’t want it and by and large government parties can’t be bothered with the idea. The implementation pathway for such a social project as Basic Income seems wrought with challenges. Try engage some US…

/> Badly managed countries inflict damage on their neighbors. We can’t hold countries accountable for callous disregard for their own people and land, but we can file complaints as soon as the faulty policies cross borders. One such consequence is mass-migration. As you can read from this article migration is increasing. The people doing the…

CNN, Washington DC, June 20 2018. Retail organizations in the US experienced nothing like this – “it feels a lot like a consumer strike. We always assumed our customers had money to purchase our products and services, and frankly they no longer do”. The American Retail and Service Institute conducted a 6 month study on…