In my 2022 post on Soylent Green, I traced how the film’s revelation, “Soylent Green is people,” dramatically literalized overpopulation as self‑consumption, a horror that lingers because it feels both absurd and, from an ecological perspective, plausible. That image was a cultural zygote: mutating into other forms of demographic dread across decades. In 2025, weContinue reading “The Demographic Shadow”
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Old Magic – Exposure
“Similia similibus curentur.”Let like be cured by like. — Hippocrates (attrib.), echoed by Paracelsus and Galen This principle, later adopted by homeopaths and ridiculed by modern medicine, remains as stubbornly persistent—and surprisingly insightful—as any ancient folk wisdom. You’ll find it not only in medical aphorism but also in the logic of sympathetic magic, as describedContinue reading “Old Magic – Exposure”
Eyeless in Gaza
Promise was that IShould Israel from Philistian yoke deliver;Ask for this great Deliverer now, and find himEyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves,Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke; Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1671 October 7, 2023 was the greatest lapse in Israeli vigilance, resulting in rapacious Hamas killing over 1,400 civilians and taking 240 more as hostages. Ever vigilant [1] At the main entranceContinue reading “Eyeless in Gaza”
Protective Arts 