The Hereticulum

Nov
11th

Wed

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the “transcendent” and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

— Christopher Hitchens - Letters to a Young Contrarian

Oct
10th

Sat

Doug Engelbart - Augmenting Human Intellect

Jul
4th

Sat

Who ‘are’ we?

Jun
16th

Tue

What is this world we’ve created for ourselves?

May
30th

Sat

Struggle Godwards

— Swami Vivekananda

May
26th

Tue

We are imprisoned by our linguistic metaphors.

May
22nd

Fri

“Red, white, and blue” is America’s new Holy Trinity.

Consider the popularity of the cinema, the wireless, the football pools and guessing competitions, all devices for soothing fractious infants, no seed of purpose in them. Consider sport, the babyish enthusiasms and the rages which it excites, whole nations disturbed by disputes between boys. Consider war, the atrocities which occur daily and
leave us unmoved and hardly worried. We are children. How this Aeon of Horus will develop, how the Child will grow up, these are for us to detemine…

— Aleister Crowley

May
20th

Wed

Ask yourself: why is fuck a ‘bad’ word?

May
18th

Mon

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

— Friedrich Nietzsche