Author: Blackbolt

Anyone who knows me knows I have a special hatred for broadcast television & particularly mainstream news. I stopped watching entirely right around the time the Lockout Law debate was stoking a furious anger in me that I had to disconnect from. So as a result my only exposure to this heinous cronenberg of corporate … Continue reading Technocrats Vs Oligarchs: A Fight of the Century →

Honestly, I hesitate to write something public about this. But I think it's necessary, for myself & anyone reading, that I try to articulate exactly where I feel I sit & why. To do that I'm going to need to explain a bit about my past. I was raised in a middle-class home, the son … Continue reading The Woke Elephant in the Room →

I live a very alienating life. I'm lying here, in the bed in my tiny granny flat that often gets complements for being cosy & nice. Which it is compared to the average share house that most of my friends live in. But I am alone almost all the time, & this is partially because … Continue reading Neo-Liberal Atomisation →

The quest of modern society is to make things as convenient as possible. Even if you are at the bottom of the stack, one of the main goals is to ease your suffering. This has culminated to a point where we are now at the beginning of an automation revolution that is going to radically … Continue reading The End of Capitalism, The End of Sapien & The Great Fork →

2018. I had just finished a recording session for an undergraduate composers final project. The band was on a smooth high from the music & we decided to go down to the Keg & Brew for a beer. The night was warm & inviting & I wanted a cigarette. So I proposed we drink outside. … Continue reading It’s Not That Bad Bro →

Today I wrote a few pages of my screenplay. It's been a slow slog, I'll do just about anything to avoid writing it. These blog posts are just one of many procrastination tools. But the screenplay is also one of the only reasons I'm still alive. Almost two years ago now, I decided that I … Continue reading A Long Dark Night & a Failed Hunt →

I am at all times being ripped apart by my thoughts. They leave me inactive & anxious. Like this one. Why should I work for a business that does something that I don't care about? Just to earn money? So survival is the only reason, the job is the hunt & the gazelle is my … Continue reading Don’t Ask Me How I’m Doing →

She is all the hopes and dreams I have saved away. A picture frame free from decay. I keep her just far enough to gaze upon her ways. Free from my madness that burns the world away. Her eyes are turned away from me. So I am never chosen. When I finally catch her. All … Continue reading May I Never Catch my Dreams →

Almost three months in now. The days are now marked only by what I choose to get done. It hasn't been all that bad for me, & I think at least on the surface the Australian public is doing fine, for now. The real test will come after the noble effort of the sweaty nervous … Continue reading End Game →

Life is a game of trade-offs, nothing is free & any adaptation given by nature costs something in return. E.g finely tuned muscles give us the motor skills that allow us to manipulate small objects in a nuanced fashion, but the cost is the brute strength that chimpanzees have over us. The cost of safety … Continue reading The Illusion of Safety →