The Age of Infotoxin

Often people ask me what my nickname "nfotxn" means. It's a truncation of the term "infotoxin" which is best described in this essay. It's definitely a good read IMHO and stands for a lot of the things I believe in, even in the uncertain and generally faithless times of today.

The Age of Infotoxin

By Jeff Philips

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Beneath the polished images of manufactured "reality," behind the insidious faces of the glitz-glam celebrity-icons, within the non-stop facade of mindless entertainment, we sense a storm brewing, an impending vortex of psychological upheaval, a mental maelstrom of unprecedented magnitude. Something's got to give. We each feel the coming cataclysm in the depths of our being because each one of us is a living, breathing being. What we are sensing is an inner battle, the struggle for the survival of life as we know it, against the forces of entropy, inertia, and extinction. That this battle is not so much in the external world as it is taking place within each of our minds makes the situation less abstract and closer to home. A lot is at stake here on the brink of the unknown, and every cell in our bodies is pulsing with uncertainty. Literally, we are standing at the edge of history.

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