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The Age of Exterminations (V): Suicide as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

October 23, 2021

The Age of Exterminations (V): Suicide as a Weapon of Mass Destruction Regina Lisso, 21 years old German girl, photographed in 1945 after killing herself by ingesting a cyanide capsule. She was unlucky enough to find herself in the crosshairs of a major propaganda effort where the Allied and the German governments collaborated to convince Germans […]

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The Age of Exterminations (IV). How to Kill the Rich

October 12, 2021

The Age of Exterminations (IV). How to Kill the Rich In our times, the Knight Templars have gained the fame of exceptionally good warriors. That may be more than a little exaggerated because when the time came to defend their leaders, arrested by the King of France, they vanished into thin air. Yet, the history […]

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The Age of Exterminations (III). Why you Should be Worried. Very Worried

October 4, 2021

The Age of Exterminations (III). Why you Should be Worried. Very Worried Disclaimer. I am no prophet and I have no crystal ball. I am just trying to find patterns in history. And I think many historical events can be explained simply on the basis of the tendency of people to try to make money […]

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The Age Of Exterminations (II) — How to Exterminate the Young

September 28, 2021

The Age Of Exterminations (II) — How to Exterminate the Young In 2018, I published a book titled The Shadow Line of Memory.” It was the biography of an Italian intellectual, Armando Vacca, who did his best to fight for peace at the beginning of the Great War. He was eventually defeated and punished by being sent […]

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Why did the Taliban Win? Lessons From Ancient History

September 22, 2021

Why did the Taliban Win? Lessons From Ancient History How did the Taliban manage to defeat the most powerful army in the world? One word: corruption. It is not new, it has already happened in many other cases in history. Here, I propose a comparison of the recent Taliban campaign with the case of the Numidian wars […]

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The IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille. Something Went Badly Wrong with the Environmental Movement

September 18, 2021

The IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille. Something Went Badly Wrong with the Environmental Movement Performers from Hawai’i at the 2021 IUCN Congress in Marseille. I am not sure of what sense did it make to come by plane all the way from Hawai’i to Europe to discuss how to reduce carbon emissions. But I […]

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9/11, the Coup that Failed. The Role of the Memesphere

September 11, 2021

9/11, the Coup that Failed. The Role of the Memesphere Octavianus Augustus Caesar (63 BC – 14 AD). Perhaps the most successful leader in history, he didn’t just become the absolute ruler of the Roman State, but took over the role of the highest religious authority (the “Pontifex Maximum”) and transformed himself into a living […]

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The Age of Exterminations: Who Will be Next Victims?

September 7, 2021

The Age of Exterminations: Who Will be Next Victims? Detail from the book, “England’s grievance discovered…” by Ralph Gardiner, 1655. Note, on the right, the scene described in the text as, “Witchfinder takes his money for his work.” The book was written when the witch-hunting age was already in decline and it emphasized how killing witches […]

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Climate Change: What is the Worst that can Happen?

August 23, 2021

Climate Change: What is the Worst that can Happen? A Brontotherium, a creature similar to modern rhinos that lived up to some 35 million years ago in a climate that was about 10 degrees centigrade hotter than ours. In this scene, we see a grassy plain, but Earth was mostly forested. We may be moving […]

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The Collapse of Scientism and the Rebirth of Science

August 20, 2021

The Collapse of Scientism and the Rebirth of Science The oldest image (1228-1229) we have of Francis of Assisi (1182 – 1226). Not a portrait, but probably not far from the real aspect of Francis. He engaged in a bold attempt to reform the corrupt Catholic Church in Europe. He failed, but he left a trace in […]

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Human Stupidity Explained: A Study Published on the Scientific Journal “Systems”

August 20, 2021

Human Stupidity Explained: A Study Published on the Scientific Journal “Systems” The original representation (1976) of the four “quadrants of stupidity” according to Carlo M. Cipolla. Clockwise from the top left quadrant: the behavior of hapless, intelligent, bandits, and stupid people. According to Cipolla, stupid people are the most dangerous people in the world. We (myself […]

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Lev Tolstoy on Afghanistan: “It Happened Because it had to Happen”

August 18, 2021

Lev Tolstoy on Afghanistan: “It Happened Because it had to Happen” When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below […]

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Consensus Building: an art that we are losing. The Case of Climate Science

Consensus Building: an art that we are losing. The Case of Climate Science In 1956, Arthur C. Clarke wrote “The Forgotten Enemy,” a science fiction story that dealt with the return of the ice age (image source). Surely it was not Clarke’s best story, but it may have been the first written on that subject […]

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The Truth About Décolletages: an Epistemic Analysis

The Truth About Décolletages: an Epistemic Analysis This image represents the rape of Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess. It was probably made during the 5th century BCE (Presently at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli, 2422). Note the partial nakedness of the figure of Cassandra: for the ancient female breasts did not have the erotic meaning that […]

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Afghanistan: The Twilight of the Global Empire

Afghanistan: The Twilight of the Global Empire Afghanistan: a ragged blot of land more or less at the center of the mass of Eurasia and Africa. Over a couple of centuries, it repelled invasions from the largest empires in modern history: Britain, the Soviet Union, and now the United States. Not for nothing, Afghanistan is […]

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