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 Lynn C. Rees | Jan 31, 2015 | Monitor
[by Lynn C. Rees] Colleen McCullough is dead (props Razib Khan). It’s a sign of George Lucas’ complete incompetence as a storyteller that he found the third greatest story ever told and left it an abomination. It is a sign of McCullough’s greatness...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 24, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which I suggest that reality may be more like a river, our understandings more like canals ] . Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, "Moon of Enlightenment" from One Hundred Views of the Moon ** I read a couple of things this morning that...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 9, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — leaping as far out of the box from Education: on Engineers, the Navy — and excuse me, Jihad as I can manage ] . Director / Actor Jean Renoir as Octave in Rules of the Game ** Let me dive directly in at the deep end. If, as Keith Oatley...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Syria, yes, but with a focus on networks, tensions, mapping, and understanding ] . Binary logic is a poor basis for foreign policy, as Tukhachevskii said on Small Wars Council’s Syria under Bashir Assad: crumbling now? thread,...