In Defense of PRINCESS Leia

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After the end of history, everything becomes a self-referential blob, losing all association with the fading worlds of the past. Perhaps the most obvious example of this increasingly context-less meta is the “promotion” of Carrie Fisher’s “Leia” from the Star Wars. In the original trilogy, she was a princess. In the Disneyfied Star Wars universe … Read more

Toy Story is EVIL

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The more I think about it, the more I think Toy Story, the first 3D animated movie to hit the silver screen, was not a coincidence and actually the result of powerful market forces. And they’re not good market forces, as all of the lessons of the movie are really awful.

Loss of Subjectivity

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Earlier this month we revisited Yerevan, Armenia, for Ian’s visa run. One evening we went to see a show of dancing fountains. You must know what it is: a colorful show when water flows to a tune and their are light effects too. Ian made some ironic comments about too many soundtracks from Hollywood movies … Read more

Will Something “Big” Happen before the NATO Summit?

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My friend Billy Bob graciously invited me to come back as a guest speaker for “Foreign Policy Review” on his YouTube channel. Today we talked about the likelihood of a major provocation in Ukraine before or during the NATO summit next week, how useful of an ally China is to Russia, and the state of “collective west’s” military stockpiles.