The many promises of technology fuel so much of our drive toward the future. To giant rocks this passing of time is next to nothing. 

Topics include: Patreon content, Godfrey Reggio interview, Sunday nights, Landers, Giant Rock, time relative to geological history, Millenarianism, Y2K, technological promises, fire symbolism, alchemy, art of multiplication, creative outlets, circadian rhythm, Ochelli poker scheme, Friday nights, livestream karaoke, Chris Graves, bad wifi connection, upload speeds, AOC and Elon Musk, blue checkmark on Twitter, social media rules don’t always apply, Musk loves publicity stunts, Geraldo, remembering phone numbers, video versus audio broadcasting

Civilization was grown, as crops are grown, from the seed that is agriculture. 

Topics include: Halloween, Trunk or Treat, evangelical take on holiday, theocracy, superstition, civilization, technology and science influence on society, leaders as gods, agriculture prime element in dawn of civilization, holidays relation with seasons and growing crops, harvest, death and rebirth, life and death, human influence over nature, Freemasonry, Great Work, apotheosis, Fertile Crescent, dark forest, archetypes, fear of wilderness and wild animals, clearing land for fields, Anarcho-Primitivism, politics, Christian Nationalism, elections, Nancy Pelosi home invasion

Live on a Sunday again. A call comes in from Chris Graves, and we get an update of The Ochelli Radio Network. 

Topics include: broadcasting, radio stations, Cooley, Ohio, side by side UTVs, Los Angeles, Uber Eats

Aaron makes it back to the microphone for a special broadcast live from Landers, CA. 

topics include: talking about different topics than others, technology, media, Landers California, George Van Tassel Integration, Giant Rock, the desert

The further we move forward the more exhaust we leave behind us. 

Topics include: trends, opposing forces, time, environmental destruction, artificial world, Fourth Industrial Revolution, technological utopianism, all things green, politics, solar power, carbon dioxide, electric vehicles, water problems in Southwestern states, grass lawns, anarcho-primitivism, observing nature, population reduction occurring, eugenics, Generation Z, climate change, toxicity, wealth concentrated at top, luxury bunkers, marketing works on elite class, plant based meat alternatives

The Buddha does not laugh out of ignorance of the pain and suffering in the world, but rather in spite of it. 

Topics include: laughter, laughing Buddha, pain and suffering, enlightenment, awareness, defying logic, taking things too serious, certainty of death, finality, Yoda, worry, international propaganda efforts, Russia, Cold War 2.0, insular national internet infrastructures, Leviathan, CA wildfires, Hemet, Inland Empire, Scientology’s Gold Base, peripheral places

Beware of propaganda from everyone and coming from everywhere. As a best practice you may want to “trust no one.” 

Topics include: Age of Transitions 2 intro video, Revolve book reviews, deep brain stimulation, medical brain implant experiments, compulsive behavior, opioid addiction, Parkinsons, Navy Twitch livestreams, military recruitment, gaming, Department of War Studies King’s College London, alumni in social media and journalism, NATO propaganda, Russian propaganda, Chinese propaganda, Cold War 2.0, Atlantic Council, CNN changing formats, new “liberal” Fox News channel, Mike Judge, Arcade Fire controversy, California alchemical gold rush, New Gold Dream

Our world is full of contradictions, and we are left here to make sense of it. 

Topics include: collective confusion and frustration, social contradictions, anomie, technology, production and consumption, environmental degradation, technique, system feeds itself, resources hoarded, corporations, artificial entities, Florida pirate Jimmy, shifting beliefs, fringe ideas gone mainstream, extreme actions seem more possible now, conspiracy thinking

Quantum computing may offer a way to power emerging tech such as Ai or AGI. 

Topics include: livestreams, quantum computing, quantum theory, physics, entanglement, mysticism, Ai, qubits, time and space, Robin, Fibonacci laser, Golden Ratio, Ai generated artwork, text prompt to image, NFT market, Beeple, Jimmy James, metaverse, Paris Hilton, digital immortality, Ozzy Osbourne, The Congress movie, Robin Wright, Carrie Fischer deep fake in movie, Star Wars, Turing test

The so-called great powers of the world are all doing their best to build up, gain control, and take advantage of all they possibly can in a world that becomes increasingly complex. Where this all leads, no one knows, but it will surely be a rocky ride ahead. 

Topics include: chatroom scuffle, mainstream and fringe narratives, rapid speed of change, systems beyond human control, intelligence community, Counterterrorism Era, great powers competition, 2016 sea change, geopolitics, world militaries, intelligentized warfare, machine learning, emerging technologies, Russian influence in US elections, information warfare, political divides, lack of national cohesion, many agendas of different players, technological competition with China, Chinese capitalist purge, Jack Ma, WeChat, American Factory, IT, cybersecurity, evangelical holy war, skewed ideas about American Founding Fathers, Great Replacement theory, white genocide, weaponization of alternative groups, Alex Jones, phone records released, January 6 Commission