Indio Gringón™ is an old-school blogger, and now the kids call those a “content creator”.
This one is too unconventional for mainstream appeal.
That’s fast, cringe, and craft 🤷🏻♂️
Welcome to a digital workshop and commonplace book 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.
At the Battle of Magnesia, the historian Livy looked at the left wing of the Seleucid army and coined a phrase for it: inani ludibrio.
Translation: “useless toy.” “Ridiculous sideshow.” “Stupid games.”
Not “they lost.” Not “they underperformed.” Livy said their entire presence on the battlefield was cosplay. An empty box on the org chart box. Filler slide in the deck.
It wasn’t a throwaway insult. It was a distinction. Because somewhere else on that field, other units were doing real work.
Some games are stupid.
Some games decide who controls the power for the next two centuries.
The Seleucids picked the wrong game to phone it in. Rome didn’t. It’s the reason “Western civilization” is a phrase people say.
This Is Not a Place of Honor™, it is where laser-guided thought bombs go to die.
It’s all fun and games…until the pendulum swings back.
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
