Indio Gringo™ is an old-school blogger, and now the kids call those a “content creator”
That’s cool 🤷🏻♂️
This is a craft workshop and digital organizer for stuff.
It is a curated repository of open-source information, knowledge, wisdom, opinions, and…poster art.
Cuz the Revolution Will Be Memeticized™
It feels like playing an inane game.
You are.
We is.
The ancient historian Livy used the term inani ludibrio to describe the left-wing of the Seleucid Army at the Battle of Magnesia in 190 BCE.
The phrase means, “useless toy”, “ridiculous sideshow” or a “futile mockery”, like—wait for it—“stupid games.”
It was meant to convey the idea of something being a source of ridicule or amusement due to its lack of substance.
A waste of time, even.
The phrase is associated with irony and situations that are perceived as absurd or nonsensical, highlighting the contrast between appearance and reality.
The subtext: some games are serious and meaningful.
The defeat at Magnesia weakened the Greek Seleucid Empire’s influence and shifted power in the Mediterranean from East to West, paving the way for Latin Roman expansion.
You’re in a curated commonplace book of laser-guided thought bombs.
It’s all fun and games…until power shifts.
Aphorisms & Interests
- institutions are designed to not change
- journalism is the first rough draft of history
- history without discomfort is propaganda
- dead trees heal souls
- writing is the evil twin of thinking
- psychology is the study how, what, and why we think what we think
- urban planning is our built environment and how we physically got here
- fearful children become fearful adults who make poor decisions, so raise brave children
- theological and metaphysical forces are in play
- comedy is tragedy plus time
- laughter is glorious, coming from a sudden self-awareness of superiority, relative inferiority of others, or how far we’ve come since being inferior
- in the transcendental multiverse, everything happens everywhere, all at once
- politics is downstream from culture which is designed by and responds to power
