“I dreamt it again”: An ex-victim speaks
Monday, 4 January 2010 by Mike Gogulskimind control, people | 2 Comments »
A European friend with whom I've been engaged in an ongoing conversation about domestic violence and rape sent me this for publication. Even though the events described are well behind her and even though she's a much stronger person today, ...
I Want Out
Saturday, 2 January 2010 by Mike Gogulskiart, mind control | 2 Comments »
"I Want Out", Helloween, 1988 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjV8SHjHvHk[/youtube] From our lives' beginning on We are pushed in little forms No one asks us how we like to be In school they teach you what to think But everyone says different things But they're all ...
The essence of the authoritarian personality
Friday, 25 December 2009 by Mike Gogulskimind control | 3 Comments »
Notes from the Asperance Expedition Armorer/Corporal YD-038 recording Page Seventeen: [caption id="attachment_3519" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Tom Paine Maru by L. Neil Smith"][/caption] Repression spares us the memory of birth, along with the painful remembrance of many agonies of childhood or adult life, but it has ...
Normal people scare me
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 by Mike Gogulskimind control, people | 12 Comments »
All around the world, including on the other side of this screen you are reading now, people act according to what I call little mental programs. They learn to obey mommy and daddy (or whomever the child-rearers are in their lives), ...
On becoming a victim
Monday, 26 October 2009 by Mike Gogulskicrime, mind control, police | 11 Comments »
I have for long years been influenced, impacted and affected by the suffering of people who are and who have been the victims of violence -- be it at the hands of states, spouses, parents or random monsters on the ...
Agorist youth cadre incentives
Saturday, 10 October 2009 by Mike Gogulskimind control | 6 Comments »
Via Jim Davidson: I've been re-reading Heinlein's novella, The Man Who Sold the Moon. It occurs to me that agorism needs some ways to involve children. I'm thinking of an essay contest, or series of contests, posting small gold and silver prizes, ...
Free markets, and fuck you
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 by Mike Gogulskimind control, philosophy | 64 Comments »
I'm republishing, here, an essay -- or, perhaps, diatribe -- by Jessica Pacholski. I don't have to agree with every word, or even understand the full context of where she is coming from. What I do understand, however, is the frustration at ...
Bring a Gun to School Day
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 by Mike Gogulskiguns, mind control | No Comments »
Rather than offering a full review of Darian Worden's novella, Bring a Gun to School Day, I'll instead present here just a few choice passages. As I read the book several months ago, I marked these pages with sticky notes. ...
The sex-violence-state nexus
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 by Mike Gogulskiart, mind control, police | 6 Comments »
[caption id="attachment_2884" align="alignright" width="217" caption="Telescoping batons in action! - The sex-violence-state nexus, illustrated"][/caption] At right you see the cover of Naše Vojsko -- Vojesnký a policejní magazín ("Our Military -- The Military and Police Manazine"), a Czech publication. This is issue ...
Interview: Markíza Magazine
Monday, 10 August 2009 by Mike Gogulskidiary, mind control | 3 Comments »
This interview was published, in Slovak, by Markíza Magazine on 2 July 2009. The English text here is a loose back-translation of the Slovak text of the published article, which is available at mojacasopis.sk. This is a translation of a translation ...
