What are pets?

Pets are love's suppository.

Startle Pattern

Indeed, a characteristic psychic pattern of the mlitary state is the "startle pattern," which is carried over to the internal as well as to external threat of danger. This startle pattern is overcome and stylized as alert, prompt, commanding adjustment to reality. This is expressed in the authoritative manner that dominates military style--in gesture, intonation, and idiom. (p. 459)

from Laswell, H. (1941). The garrison state. The American Journal of Sociology, 46, 455-468

Fantasia on a theme by augmented reality mobile gaming

From the BBC online:

“There has been no response yet from game developers Niantic Labs on whether it could stop Pokemon creatures from appearing inside the Holocaust Museum.”

The prospect of extraterrestrial communication, in a nutshell.

If we are condemned to communicating only with ourselves on our own planet, what are the chances that we will ever be able to communicate with any extraterrestrial life?

the self

The self is a sedimentary concept accumulated from the habits of the individual.