Category Archives: Ben’s Blog




A Critique of Firing Back: Clarifications, Observations and Responses – Part 1

This is the 2nd post in an ongoing exchange between myself and Graham Wright of Man Against The State. Graham’s first post takes the form of a line-by-line critique of the short presentation “Firing Back” from January 2012. The original video in question is here. All posts in this series are tagged “Graham Wright and […]

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Letters From Two Frontlines: Conversations with Graham Wright of Man Against The State

The great global conversation humanity has to have in order to advance itself, share its knowledge, its experience and its ideas, is a ridiculously recent invention. In fact, if we are to consider the worldwide access to information, whether in the form of the internet, phone or libraries, we can firmly say that the conversation […]

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They Might Be Giants’ children’s music is brilliant/hilarious/the future

The very first time I heard They Might be Giants (TMBG) was in the late 80s, when, as a kid, round 7 or 8 years old, I liked to cycle through the radio stations on my AM/FM radio, enjoying the random peals of voices and musical collage the rotation created. I guess this was my […]

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The Means is The End: The Underlying Shared Logic of the Occupy Movement and The Media Blackout

So this afternoon, Truth-Out published what I happened to be thinking at exactly the moment the article hit my inbox; the means of the Occupy Movement, from supplying at every #Occupy location (and in their article’s context, Liberty Park, New York) free medical resources, free food and drink, and even in many cases, free Wi-Fi […]

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Pre-Post-Apocalyptic In a Good Way

I remember first visiting London’s St Paul’s Cathedral at the tender, semi-Santa Claus eligible age of 17. Most striking was the exit; giant doors which held back the darkness of the inside, swinging open to a blanched square surrounded by the shining alabaster-coloured machines of London’s Square Mile. Often peppered with tourists, or suits, but […]

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