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Category: Note

Men of God in the City of Man, Part 2: Carriers

Every virus needs carriers to spread. Even a narrative virus. We can learn a lot from what they have in common.
Rusty Guinn August 31, 2023
138 Comments

Men of God in the City of Man, Part 1: Virus

This is a story about a virus and the gain-of-function research that produced it. It's not what you think.
Rusty Guinn August 25, 2023
138 Comments

Freedom of Speech, Rich Men of Reach

TRIGGER WARNING: This note will make many readers anxious and angry, because you have been told by the political entrepreneurs of your tribe that nei…
Ben Hunt August 23, 2023
54 Comments

Narrative Derangement Syndrome

Awareness of narrative is a necessary tool for the politically engaged citizen. Up to a point. If obliviousness to narrative is the easiest way to …
Rusty Guinn August 22, 2023
20 Comments

Language is a Virus: Mike Pence edition

This is not a note about Mike Pence. This is a note about language. This is a note about how viral words of *therapy* have infected blue tribe brain…
Ben Hunt August 11, 2023
61 Comments

Men of God in the City of Man, Part 8: Zoonosis

Physical viruses sometimes jump from one species to another. Narrative viruses sometimes jump from one culture to another. All it takes is the rig…
Rusty Guinn July 17, 2023
138 Comments

Men of God in the City of Man, Pt. 7: Mutation

Narrative viruses are not immune to events in reality world - especially when we have made those narratives part of our identity. And when a narrativ…
Rusty Guinn July 14, 2023
138 Comments

Men of God in the City of Man, Pt. 6: Pandemic

Surprising outcomes in reality world that seem to confirm a narrative often produce explosive growth in its scale. But also in its scope.
Rusty Guinn July 12, 2023
138 Comments

Men of God in the City of Man, Pt. 5: Epidemic

Men of God prophesied as early as 2007 that God would make Donald Trump the President of the United States. Our narrative virus gave these prediction…
Rusty Guinn July 10, 2023
138 Comments

Men of God in the City of Man, Part 4: Epimemetics

Every narrative is built on memes that have evolved and adapted to human culture over centuries. But some environments change the way that those mem…
Rusty Guinn July 7, 2023
138 Comments

The Launch of FiatNews.com

Today we announce the beta launch of FiatNews.com, an Epsilon Theory sub-site devoted to the measurement of opinion content in news. Our goal? Givin…
Rusty Guinn July 6, 2023
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Men of God in the City of Man, Part 3: Memetics

In the same way that genetics governs how physical viruses reproduce within a host, memetics governs how narrative viruses reproduce within a culture.…
Rusty Guinn July 5, 2023
138 Comments

The United States of Bed Bath & Beyond

A grown man made a wager. He lost. He made another wager. He lost again. End of story. - Tony Soprano This is the story of weak men and rapacious me…
Ben Hunt May 16, 2023
80 Comments

An AI in the City of God

The City of Man always wins. The Visigoths always sack Rome. The Vandals always sack Hippo. Augustine always dies in the siege. Bad things always hap…
Ben Hunt April 11, 2023
195 Comments

Noseblind

The half-life of just about every major news story is one week. Barring major new developments, practically nothing captures our attention beyond si…
Rusty Guinn March 1, 2023
23 Comments

Metaphysics, Consciousness, Nature of Reality: a Thread from the ET Forum

The craziest thing happens when there's no audience, when you're talking with other actual human beings for the right reasons ... you not only have ac…
Ben Hunt January 23, 2023
196 Comments

“Yay, College!” Part 1: The Smiley-Face Super-Villainy of American Higher Education

The modern American system of higher education - especially its most prominent public and private universities - is less our Superman than our Homelan…
Ben Hunt January 22, 2023
70 Comments

Epsilon Theory 2022 in Review – Foundation

2022 was our ninth year of publishing Epsilon Theory. It was also our best. We're changing the way the world sees the invisible water in which we swi…
Ben Hunt December 29, 2022
3 Comments

The Recipe for Agent Orange – The Projection Racket, Pt. 3

There is a true story of free market capitalism. It is one of humanity's greatest and most important stories. There is also a myth of free market ca…
Rusty Guinn December 1, 2022
27 Comments

The MacGuffin, Part 2: The Story Arc of SBF and FTX

The MacGuffin is the object of desire. It is the thing around which the plot of the story revolves. Here is the story arc of SBF and FTX, and the M…
Ben Hunt November 18, 2022
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