The Persistence Of This Illusion Is Astonishing

With SOPA gone? look out for ACTA

Maurice FitzGerald — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:22:19 +0000

Internet Freedom

It was great that SOPA went down but ACTA looks pretty darn awful and the fact that MegaUpload was seized(and all the private data on it) means that we need some legislation going the other way. The kind that would really protect peoples private data from intrusive government supervision. Before we all go crazy into this whole cloud storage thing we should be downloading and archiving all we can

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: acta, Cloud storage, Hardware, Information privacy, internet freedom, MegaUpload, Megaupload Limited, pipa, sopa

The problem is

Maurice FitzGerald — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:32:17 +0000

The problem is

when I start to think
there is too much
that wants to come out

the end of every thread
is hopelessly frayed

I start to write and
I can’t
see through all the legitimate doubt
I get
mired in all the competing
aspects

I know enough
to know
I can never say enough
but
given the stamina
I would always say too much

Filed under: Maurice A. FitzGerald, Self Portrait, slice of life Tagged: Blog, knowledge, Philosophy, poetry, statement, Threads, writing

Skyrim and the Denial of Death

Maurice FitzGerald — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:43:27 +0000

Recently I have been playing the game Skyrim. I play the game with the sound off so I can listen to audiobooks. Lately I have been been listening to Ernest Becker‘s The Denial Of Death. Here’s what the Wikipedia has to say about the book.

Another theme running throughout the book is that humanity’s traditional “hero-systems” i.e. religion, are no longer convincing in the age of reason; science is attempting to solve the problem of man, something that Becker feels it can never do. The book states that we need new convincing “illusions” that enable us to feel heroic in the grand scheme of things, i.e. immortal. Becker, however, does not provide any definitive answer, mainly because he believes that there is no perfect solution. Instead, he hopes that gradual realization of man’s innate motivations, namely death, can help to bring about a better world.

Hah! and here I am playing a first-person hero simulation game. Today’s convincing illusions sure are on the nose.

Filed under: Mcpeople, Self Portrait, slice of life Tagged: Becker, Denial of Death, Elder Scrolls, Ernest Becker, Games, Skyrim, The elder scrolls v skyrim