what is the vertiginous chapati saying to me?

[see Part I of III and Part II of III]
III. A Modest Proposal
Many historians are reluctant to comment on the present if a question presented to them contains a categorical assumption about the past; it’s a little like suggesting a diagnosis to an MD–no matter what is wrong with you, it’s not going to be [...]

[see Part I]
II. I do not ♥ Baby Boomers
Aldous Huxley called occult nature worship the “perennial religion,” because it is the default to which man returns when his gods desert him. It makes sense after all to appeal directly to the effects of nature, rather than their causes, when the chips are down.
Our gods [...]

[sepoy notes: A tip from a CM reader led me to Stargates in Iraq. Feeling inadequate to the task, I called a few favors and farangi is here to tell us the story.]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying–about Humanity, Ganesh, Bill Moyers, Foreign Policy, and The Strange Life of Robert Anton Wilson–and Love the Apocalypse.
Clarke’s [...]