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Skepticism and the Post-Human Economy

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Skepticism and the Post-Human Economy

November 22, 2016 — 3 Comments

The Headless Hitchhiker of St. Leonard’s Forest

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Headless Hitchhiker of St. Leonard’s Forest

November 13, 2016 — 3 Comments

The Problem with a Rude Singularity

Anthropology, History, Technology

The Problem with a Rude Singularity

August 10, 2015 — 2 Comments

Monstrously Disruptive Technology: Don’t Turn Your Back on the Toaster

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Technology

Monstrously Disruptive Technology: Don’t Turn Your Back on the Toaster

August 3, 2015 — 79 Comments

The Fairy Fishing Industry: Baiting the Hook of History

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

The Fairy Fishing Industry: Baiting the Hook of History

April 9, 2015 — 2 Comments

Things Get Flatter: From Cigar-Shaped UFOs to Flying Saucers

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Things Get Flatter: From Cigar-Shaped UFOs to Flying Saucers

August 16, 2014 — 0 Comments

The Crucifixion of the Mechanical Messiah: John Murray Spear and the Synthetic Savior

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Crucifixion of the Mechanical Messiah: John Murray Spear and the Synthetic Savior

June 2, 2014 — 6 Comments

Fear of Flying: Gremlins and the Terror of Technology

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Fear of Flying: Gremlins and the Terror of Technology

August 16, 2013 — 2 Comments

Bedtime Stories for Small Extraterrestrials: How the Little Green Man Went Grey

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology

Bedtime Stories for Small Extraterrestrials: How the Little Green Man Went Grey

July 24, 2013 — 5 Comments

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him.”
-Laini Taylor

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Life is Hard. After all, it kills you.”
-Katherine Hepburn

“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
-Theodor Adorno

“All would be well. All would be heavenly–If the damned would only stay damned.”
-Charles Fort

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
–Jerry Garcia

“You can’t create a monster, then whine when it stomps a few buildings.”
–Yeardley Smith

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
–Robert Anton Wilson

“The earth, it has been said, is one vast graveyard, and man can nowhere put down his foot without stepping on the remains of a brother.”
–M. Schele de Vere

“Even from the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”
–H.P. Lovecraft

“If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?”
–Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.”
— Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
–Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.”
–Eric Hoffer, American Social Philosopher

“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
–Günter Grass, German Novelist