Hansen's MagNET » Archive for August 2010
The Inception of Inception
I just came home from the grind house, after wasting approximately two hours of my life. I had been told that the new film, “Inception”, had kicked “The Godfather: Part II” down to a forth place on the IMDB Top 250 list, so – naturally – I had high expectations. And they turned out not to be fulfilled at all. Leaving the cinema I was struck by a vivid idea: How “Inception” was incepted. Of course, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ramblings and reflections
Sex is overvalued
Some consider sex to be overvalued. This is clearly an intellectual point of view. For this reason most intellectual people end up underfucked. Clever people. In fact they fuck as much as other people. They just use different organs to penetrate each other. The dick is substituted with a pen. The cunt with paper. Brainstorming is the foreplay. Instead of kissing they throw abstract ideas back and forth. No need for the swollen dick to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fiction and pseudo-fiction
Brimmed with anxiety
Does it matter? Does it really matter? Someone is laughing in the kitchen. She is on the phone. I’m lying on the couch writing. Pain in my back. It’s burning. Is it my kidneys? I don’t think so. Don’t hope so. I’m in Bremen. Been here since Friday. Intend to leave in a couple of days. It’s getting cold and wet here. Going south. Met a charming girl from Romania. She stopped growing in fourth … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fiction and pseudo-fiction
I used to think
I used to think that getting girls was only for the selected few guys. Years later it turned out that I was right. But the selected few was an entirely different bunch than expected – and I turned out to be one of them. When I realized this, my otherwise good life became a living nightmare. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fiction and pseudo-fiction
Please stop acting like a king
This is a preliminary draft, for friends and foes to indulge in. If you enjoy typos and awkward language, please read on. We have a problem when it comes to gaining new knowledge: we choose our position, then defend it, rather than continuously attacking our own position, while searching for a better (more correct) position. It seems to be human nature, and the better approach is not just counterintuitive, it’s counter-life. So, to gain new … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ramblings and reflections, Science & Technology
Returning to the animal kingdom
“Look at the cats in the garden. They seem so peaceful, and without worries.” She turned and looked at her husband who was occupied with the latest issue of Classic American. “Ted – I am talking to you.” There was no response, and the telly was on. “Ted!” she yelled. He raised his head with a smile on his face. “Look at this Ford Corsair, isn’t it charming?” She shook her head. “I was talking to you, and I don’t care about no … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fiction and pseudo-fiction
The Sinking Ship – a funny, but dumb argument
It is quite amazing what kind of weird arguments people come up with to support their position. Rather than looking at problems objectively, the tendency to wrap the most colorful idea around ones – already established – position seems to be more and more predominant. While reading the article “National Solutions” on The John Birch Society’s website I couldn’t help laughing. The author, whoever he is – there is no “name tag” anywhere on the page … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ramblings and reflections
A lesson from Rousseau
Maybe laws can be justified only when people do not take responsibility. For example: if no one would ever steal from another, then no law regarding theft would be needed. In the same way, if families took the necessary responsibility and only gave birth to one child, then there would be no need for imposing a sterilization law. But unfortunately most people are concerned only with their own little world, and do not see the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ramblings and reflections
Born in the land of truth
He was born in the land of truth. Here everyone spoke the truth, plain and simple. Nothing but the truth. Since most of us are born nowhere near the land of truth, let me explain what they mean when they say that people born in the land of truth always speaks the truth. First and foremost, it is important to understand the difference between the objective truth and the truth contained within each and every … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ramblings and reflections
The Man and the Mother Stone
A spouseless stone laid in the desert. It hatched, and a comatose man felt out. He was thirty years old and naked. For an hour or two the sun was stinging him. Slowly he began to awake. The notion of mother, father, family and friends was unknown to him. So was birth and death. When he opened his eyes he was greeted by a cobalt blue sky, blotched with a cloud here and there. He crushed his eyes together, then postured up to look around. There was nothing but his mother stone, himself, and an ocean of sand. He began to inspect the stone. Nothing peculiar about it. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Fiction and pseudo-fiction