Message From the Founder

"...shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase" - Daniel 12:4. These are chaotic times indeed! Information multiplies while meaning attenuates amidst an ever cacophonic global din. As predicted way before, and as our planet completes yet another precessional cycle, we are entering a new age. This is perhaps the first time in history where our ongoing philosophical discourses, the precursors of which helped built our civilization, will straggle far behind our material advances. There is a serious disconnect, a never satiated yearning for more, and a pathetic grasping for order. We want quick fixes like never before and we want our complexities dumbed down. Where is this leading to? Read on....we will explore the scenarios here. The Fifth Age beckons. -- Mathew Maavak, Panoptic World founder. (Feb 11th 2004)

Mathew Maavak The Panoptic World appears to be a great antidote to the epidemic of uninformed stupidity plaguing all of our minds at this strange juncture in history (April 12, 2004)." - Douglas Rushkoff

Fascinating site - so typical of you! - Prof Philip M. Taylor, University of Leeds, United Kingdom (March 25, 2004)

"...a lively site for the expression of opinion in a fast and changing world. Ironically, such criticism-focused sites appear to be signs of health in the very society that's criticised. A delicious irony. - David Brin (April 26, 2004)

"Please keep those great articles flowing." - Khalid Al-Khater, alkhater.net, Feb 9, 2007

Quote: The only power tyrants have, is the power relinquished to them by their victims. -- Éttiene de la Boétie, 1552.

Welcome to my homepage. It is an archival journey of my works, my experiences, travels and insights. Read them all here and follow the trail.... Below is my latest commentary.

 

  • A ROULETTE OF TERROR, NUKES AND JIHAD By Mathew Maavak (May 18, 2009) After almost eight years, Operation Enduring Failure, as it should appropriately be called, is leading up to one inevitable question: Is it time to move from surgical strikes to the sterilization and cauterization of Pashtun lands in the Af-Pak region?

  • THERE IS INDEED A CHRISTMAS STORY By Mathew Maavak (Dec 21, 2008). Never had such a transplanted festival create a sense of oneness among children. Take away Christmas and you take away a seasonal joy entitled to them. It is so innately appealing to children that they universally provide the best celebratory squeals in honor of the most famous birth ever recorded -- and contested -- in history. As for the date Dec 25, there might be a surprise here...

  • LAYING PALIN'S WARDROBE BARE By Mathew Maavak (Oct 26, 2008).  What links mega-evangelism and compassionate conservatism to the porn industry? This is not the only quadrillion-dollar question left unanswered in the 2008 US presidential debates. That "drill, baby, drill" circus has thundered out a financial and social tsunami gathering current.

    • I wish the article below -- written a full year ago -- was just another horror story, but it sure doesn't look like it:

  • WE ARE IN A BAD FIX By Mathew Maavak (Oct 9, 2007). This is a planet in denial. While the existential question gets a red hot "apocalypse now" for an answer, our stock markets seem to have regained paradise lost.If wars are yet contained, bidding wars will yet emerge over wheat, water, fish, medicines and oil. What will the future hold in this ecology of crises?

    • And here is an old academic tinkering that has now become blase...

  • 'PEAK OIL' AND THE REDELINEATION OF GLOBAL POWER -- MATHEW MAAVAK. A project draft on how an energy crisis may reshape the world. Energy/security-related establishments interested in funding or co-developing this project are welcome to contact me at mathew@maavak.net

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     The curious may contact me at mathew(at)maavak(dot)net