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Our Conflicted Views On Death

by Mike Pyatt Since creation mortals have faced the certainty of death. It’s the “great equalizer.” With rare exceptions, most fight “tooth n’ nail” to cling to life. Few societies, absent Judeo Christian underpinnings, extol suicide, notwithstanding Oregon’s, 1997, abominable, ill-named, “Death with Dignity Act.” WWII Japanese Kamikaze pilots considered …

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Smashing the Omnipotent State

By Bradley Harrington  “The Internet, our greatest tool for emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen.” — Julian Assange, “Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet,” 2012 — Many of us free-thinking types, back in the 1990s, believed that the rise …

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Shangri-La Exposed

by Mike Pyatt Even though such a place is imaginary, an idyllic paradise from the scene of James Hilton’s 1933, novel Lost Horizon, for millennia misguided dreamers have longed for such a place on earth. The movie sequel depicted a place hidden in a Nepalese mountain valley, where greed and …

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