Posts Tagged war

The God of War

January 22, 2011 by Ian MacKenzie
Photo: roy_alx Found while listening to a track via SomaFM, a quote woven behind the music. I don’t remember the song artist, but a Google search revealed the quote: “People under the age of 20 have this massive hole in their soul. And they have built their personalities around cynicism. Cynicism means, simply, aping or [...]

There Is No Other

April 18, 2010 by Ian MacKenzie
In my last post, I wrote about the problem with rampant consumption. Particularly, how all we appear to know is how to feed the “Machine.” It’s tempting to describe the Machine as familiar objects of scorn: big corporations, white men, society, the Illuminati, etc… but when you do that, you’re easily laughed off by the [...]

Us Versus Them

February 1, 2009 by Ian MacKenzie
We. A film based on the words of Arundhati Roy The defining conflict of the 20th century tends to be characterized as Democracy versus Totalitarianism. First, the Fascist dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin, then the spectre of Communist Russia. By the turn of the century, it appeared that Democracy had won. Then suddenly, a new [...]

How Do You Change Someone Else’s Mind?

December 28, 2008 by Ian MacKenzie
Each war is different. Each war is the same. / Photo Kevin Dooley If someone doesn’t have the same opinion as you, most people take it personally. That was a great movie! How can you not like it? This music sucks! Your taste is awful. And so on. Our preference often becomes part of our [...]