In this interesting essay, John Perry Barlow examines the possibility that the U.S. government may be acting like “the Mother of All Rogue States, run by mad thugs in possession of 15,000 nuclear warheads they are willing to use” in order to scare the rest of the world into behaving.
Last night, as Justina and I were riding the T to the Puppet Slam, I overheard someone saying that the guy who did Aeon Flux had a new cartoon on Cartoon Network. When I came home, I looked it up, and sure enough, Reign: The Conqueror has finally hit our shores, and the first DVD comes out next week! Peter Chung got together with some of the people who worked on Metropolis (Rintaro) and Trigun (Masao Murayama and Madhouse) to create the series, which is a re-imagining of the life of Alexander the Great. As this meandering “review” mentions, it does take rather entertaining liberties with the source material.
I just got John Gray’s False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism from the library, and while I haven’t read enough to judge the book as a whole, this sentence from the first chapter just struck me:
The free market created a new type of economy in which prices of all goods, including labour, changed without regard to their effects on society.
Exactly!
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