acidlabs » iraq http://www.acidlabs.org Conversation. Collaboration. Community. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:13:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ When the Generals talk… http://www.acidlabs.org/2006/10/25/when-the-generals-talk/ http://www.acidlabs.org/2006/10/25/when-the-generals-talk/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:59:56 +0000 Stephen Collins http://dev.acidlabs.org/2006/10/25/when-the-generals-talk/


You better listen to him (link to Salon, registration/Site Pass/ad viewing possibly required but worthwhile).

Nice (plus apologies to Midnight Oil).

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]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.acidlabs.org/p=394 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Hell in (several) handbaskets http://www.acidlabs.org/2006/07/30/hell-in-several-handbaskets/ http://www.acidlabs.org/2006/07/30/hell-in-several-handbaskets/#comments Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:52:58 +0000 Stephen Collins http://dev.acidlabs.org/2006/07/30/hell-in-several-handbaskets/


Seminal cyberpunk author, William Gibson, has posted an incredibly insightful opinion piece about the current crisis in the Middle East. He particularly laments the narrow vision and “behind the curve” thinking of the US and Israel in the several wars being fought across the region. Like me, he believes that if thinking and mindset continues this way, there can never be a resolution.

Now, let it be said plain and simple, in disagreeing with the conduct of war in the Middle East, I in no way support the actions of Hezbollah, insurgents in Iraq or belligerent states such as Iran. I simply don’t support the way the US (and my country, Australia) are undertaking to solve the issues. Nor do I purport to have the answers.

If you read the piece carefully enough, you’ll “get” that it’s about dichotomy of mindset (Kuhnian paradigms, in Gibson’s case) and how the thinking informing the paradigms of the opposing sides informs their language such that opposing sides use the same words for different things. As such, there can never be agreement or resolution given the chasm of opposing paradigms between those involved.

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]]> http://js-kit.com/rss/www.acidlabs.org/p=327 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Iraq traveller http://www.acidlabs.org/2005/04/21/iraq-traveller/ http://www.acidlabs.org/2005/04/21/iraq-traveller/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:49:08 +0000 Stephen Collins http://dev.acidlabs.org/2005/04/21/iraq-traveller/

Jacob Applebaum is travelling in Iraq and blogging about it. Peacock-worshippers, automatic weapons, bombs, black market military equipment and hacking together satellite ‘net connections – what could be better? It’s fascinating stuff, almost in the same vein as Elena’s trip through Chernobyl (this one is a must read, if you’ve not already seen it – absolutely compelling stuff).

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