An American tourist in Russia
Rambo is a boomer fantasy and victim parable. Rambo represents the boomer, who is a strong tough guy who killed fifty gazillion commie gооks in ‘Nam (even though the large majority of boomers avoided going to ‘Nam, but anyway) and is a rebellious free thinker. The sheriff represents the boomer’s father, the greatest generation, which … Read more
Trump is not ruining the system, he is a product of the system. And saying “average president” here is like standing in a sinking boat and saying there has only been an average of one inch of water on the floor for the past 10 years. Trump is particularly unpopular because a fairly large percentage … Read more
If you read US military theory from around the mid-late 1990s up to 2021 you will see that their vision of future conflict was, literally, pulp fiction like Starship Troopers and Falkenberg’s Legion. Superbly trained light infantry with digital communication networks in the hands of every soldier and post-scarcity fire and air support. Unfortunately, not … Read more
2001: a Space Odyssey is a story about monoliths. The monoliths are the macguffin that drives the plot forward, starting with the first monolith that taught ancient proto-humans how to use a club for hunting and war. This journey continues to the end, when the spaceman is led by the last monolith into a Windows … Read more
