Author Archives: Damien Walter

There is an energy field created by all living things. It isn’t something we invented. It’s observable. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It connects us to the living, and to the dead. It is what gives us our power. It is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends space and time. ItContinue reading “The Force of Love”

Cavill must be an Astartes He won’t be. He’ll be an Inquistor or Rogue Trader or something But that’s pussying out No Astartes, no Warhammer Warhammer, and by extension the multi-billion dollar business that is Games Workshop, only exists because of SPACE MARINES Yes, GW…borrowed…lots of parts from Heinlein, Herbert and others But the AstartesContinue reading “Cavill MUST become an Astartes”

ConsumerismCorporatismCapitalism The three C’s of modern civilization Today it’s becoming obvious to many people that modernity is dead. Consumerism is turning our planet into a junk heap. Corporatism has become a new despotism. And Capitalism has bought our politics so we have no mechanism to make change. But all of this was much less clearContinue reading “The origin of “future sports””

The universe is a relentless mechanical system running on automatic in which we struggle for a brief moment before being destroyed by forces that do not even know we exist. Merry Xmas.

Can we make the Culture…real? Since completing the feature length doco Hippies With Guns : The Culture of Iain M Banks I’ve been planning a commentary to follow up debating if we can make the Culture real Left wing politics has always been animated by the belief that “a better world is possible” which meansContinue reading “Can we make the Culture…real?”

It’s quite widely known that Issac Asimov’s Foundation saga was inspired in part by The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon But that’s sometimes wrongly interpreted to mean that the Foundation is the Roman Empire in space The major event in Roman history that Asimov took inspiration from was the shiftContinue reading “Foundation is not Romans in space”

The Excalibur video just snuck over 100,000 views in exactly a week People like King Arthur, swords…and Helen Mirren This video essay had been in my research queue for some months, but I actually pulled the trigger on writing and shooting because this image of Helen Mirren turned up in the research It’s actually aContinue reading “100,000k”