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Happy Columbus Day! The Celebration of a Wayward Psychopath…

As children, we all “learned” in school about the adventures and exploits of Christopher Columbus: the brave explorer who set out on a perilous mission to discover the New World. He was sold to us as a folk hero, a man to be admired. Banks would close, and we would get a day off from…

October 14, 2013 in 5) History, by Nick Allison, Reblogged.

Combat Veteran’s Last Letter to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

As a general rule, or perhaps guideline, we don’t repost articles from other sites here at Chaos Section; Our stories are all original works by members of our little family. But in the case of Tomas Young’s letter, I felt that we had to make an exception. I think that it’s important for Tomas’s words…

March 19, 2013 in 3) Politics, Reblogged.

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— Hunter S. Thompson,
Rolling Stone, November 11, 2004


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“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
- Terence McKenna, attributed


"In the end, McKenna, the Stoics, Buddhists, Taoists, and Heraclitus are all pointing us toward the same truth: to live fully, we must learn to dance with chaos, not run from it. We must let go of our rigid need for control and open ourselves to the wild, untamed, and unpredictable flow of life. Only then can we truly understand the deeper currents that shape our existence, the very sections of life where chaos and order intertwine."
- The Fear of Letting Go: Ego’s Struggle for Control

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