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Welcome to my website. This is like a pretty version of a Geocities website from 1995.

Here, I write about the things I tell other people that seem to give them the most relief, provocation, pause and/or surprise. The things they seem to find interesting but somehow didn’t know before.

Basically, people are always saying to me: “Robert! You have so many opinions! You need to write these down or something so more people can hear your thoughts.” And it’s true: I’ve spent more hours mindlessley researching random shit on Wikipedia than anyoone I know (this is not me bragging, it’s me admitting to being a shut-in Hikokomori information slave), but the result is I know all about tons of random crap that is actually kinda cool to learn and discuss.

Anyway, the peoiple telling me to “write this down!” came more frequently to the point I realized it wasn’t just meaningless bourgeois hyperbole meant to flatter me (though much of it was still this). And since attention is the coin of our realm. And my ideas always seem to get attention. Since we are sadly oppressed to live in a time of…ugh…CAPITALISM… and I need coin. Well, do the math.

So, in sum, I took your advice, people: here are my fucking opinions, written down as requested.

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How do I decide what qualifies for inclusion on the site?

I really do edit what I decide to post. This is not the random things that happen to pop into my head in chronological order of when I was able to type them down.

Basically, if I find that other people’s attention was “got” by a concept or an idea, because they found it fascinating or interesting or hysterical or valid or inflammatory but in a good way… I am going to try to elucidate and crystalize that idea/concept, and include it on this website.

So here is my Futurist Manifesto, my oppisitonal narrative, my crazy brain’s stream of consciouness let loose lon the Information Superhighway of CYBERSPACE for your all to critique and as fodder for character assination. I love 2019!

 

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I cannot believe how few people understand Demographic Transition Theory
I cannot believe how few people understand Demographic Transition Theory

In nearly every historical case, a decrease in total fertility (and ulitamtely, a slowdown, stagnation or long-term decline in population growth rates) is precedded, predicted and correlated to a decrease in toital mortality (improved overall life expectancy), itself a factor of the level of a society’s economic development. In other words, in order to stabilize global population, we need to improve health outcomes for the people in the developing world. It sounds counterintuitive, but it’s not: rich coiuntries, without immigration, almost universally have below-repolacement fertility rates, and for the few Gulf States with high life expoectancy yet persistently high fertility rates, the answer appears to be the relative lack of female empowerement. Indeed, the only thing univerdsally corelated (inversely) to fertility rates is the rate of female literacy.

The Fermi Paradox is Everything (WHERE ARE THE ALIENS?)
The Fermi Paradox is Everything (WHERE ARE THE ALIENS?)
Dune is the best book series ever, by a huge margin
Dune is the best book series ever, by a huge margin

A world is supported by four things: the prayers of the righteous, the wisdom of the learned, the justice of the great, and the wisdom of the brave...but all these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling."

Other things I think about every day but don't yet have their own blog post individually
Who I Am; and What I Believe (MY FUCKING MANIFESTO, BITCHES)

Welcome to my website. Here, I write about the things I talk about with other people that mostt often get the attention of others— because they agree, disagree, find it fascinating, interesting, funny, valid, inflammatory…

So here is my Futurist Manifesto, my oppositional narrative, my crazy brain let loose on the cyberspace. `