On Barcodes and the Rise of the Surveillance Society — by Polydamas In her May 22, 2012 BBC column, titled “Barcode Everyone At Birth”, (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120522-barcode-everyone-at-birth?selectorSection=section), notable science fiction and fantasy author Elizabeth Moon proposed the following: “If I were empress…
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The Disunited States of America
The Disunited States of America — by Polydamas Nearly forty-nine years ago, on August 28, 1963, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. his masterpiece “I Have a Dream” speech. Two…
Prometheus Unchained and Reaching For the Stars
Prometheus Unchained and Reaching For the Stars — by Polydamas Greek mythology, which serves as the inspiration for this website, has long delighted people of all ages for distilling the wisdom of ages in colorful legends. One of its more…
Born in Kenya, Nearly Irrelevant
Born in Kenya, Nearly Irrelevant — by Patrokles What if Barack Hussein Obama were actually to have been born in Kenya in 1961? While there may be many issues surrounding the “Certificate of Live Birth”, said to have been issued…
The Road to Ruin or to Salvation
The Road to Ruin or to Salvation—by Polydamas There is an apocryphal, yet, nonetheless, amusing story about a chemist, an engineer, and an economist who were shipwrecked on a barren desert island. They had with them a large supply of…
The Limits of Tolerance
The Limits of Tolerance—by Odysseus Try, if you dare, a thought puzzle. A hypothetical if you will. What if there were a religion in the world, whose holy treatise demanded that they must offer everyone they meet the opportunity to…
Even National Review Doesn’t See It?
Even National Review Doesn’t See It? — by Odysseus Obama’s people literally created this material? Intentionally? Didn’t they recognize that “Julia” was the name of the love interest in George Orwell’s “1984”? Did they do it intentionally as a joke,…
What’s New is Really Old
What’s New is Really Old—by Odysseus Some time in waning hours of the twentieth century, the political discourse in the United States tumbled down a rabbit hole, leaving us all stranded in this “looking glass” world. Our whole political debate has…
Welcome
Welcome to The Cassandra Times. In the not-so-distant past, educated adults studied and were knowledgeable about the mythologies as well as histories of ancient Greece and Rome, which were the Cradle of Western Civilization. An allusion to the name “Cassandra”…