by Charles Cameron | Sep 9, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — with a Magnus Ransdorp squib in its tail ] . The issue is complexity, and how you represent it. The case in point is Syria. Here’s a diagram that suggests complexity as a sort of crazy weaving, all straight lines and colors: This...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 9, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a mental long-jump, following Sceenius: the macro in micro, Nepal ] . It’s a stretch, I know, and whether it will prove a useful leap or not I have no idea — but for the record, this detail from slide 8 of the Sceenius promo...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 17, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — borders and distinctions from Trump to Revelation, plus one ] . Donald Trump‘s “three core principles of real immigration reform”: 1. A nation without borders is not a nation. ** G Spencer-Brown wrote of his book. Laws of...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 21, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Putin: the other fellow’s Ukraine is this fellow’s Temple Mount ] . It is hard to keep up with John Schindler [@20committee]: his writings flow fast and sure enough that I feel a bit like Alice, running fast to keep still, as I try to...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which the muj from Khorasan talk even more about the erasing of national boundaries than the soldiers of the IS caliphate ] . Before there were maps, there was terrain, some of it populated, and various populations spoke various...