Tag Archives: illusion

beige vacancy

Mind Reading

http://www.maxmax.com/aMagicMindRead.htm
The illusion of choice and the choice of illusions.  There are variations on this, but its the first one I got around to bookmarking.
And then there’s real high-tech neuroscientific type mind reading:
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1741-2552/6/1/016003

silver & gold

Failure

I have failed
I have vomited forth
the scope of my beliefs
the essence of my religion
lost it in the industrial swamp
through the din of the status quo
met with silence or worse
I have whispered with oblique reference
the hopes closest to my soul
while hammering home the most trivial
of hackneyed cliches
spelling out the names
of my favorite ball players
like a pantheon [...]