Terry O’Gara
@terryogara.bsky.social
Distilling modern complexities into mythopoetic modern fables and small acts of sense-making, in an attempt to find clarity within culture and chaos.
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December 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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"Wait, you mean it's 'soft war' and not 'software?"
"Always has been..."
"Always has been..."
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"Wait, you mean it's 'soft war' and not 'software?"
"Always has been..."
"Always has been..."
Investors seek prophets; markets reward spectacle over stability; corporations have morphed into cults. When historians write their chapter on Musk, it will read as a neoclassical fairy tale: a case study in the commodification of charisma intertwined with a profound loss of faith in the system.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Investors seek prophets; markets reward spectacle over stability; corporations have morphed into cults. When historians write their chapter on Musk, it will read as a neoclassical fairy tale: a case study in the commodification of charisma intertwined with a profound loss of faith in the system.
Ironic. Ramaswamy's GOP advice is to adopt classic, Clintonian, Democratic principles, while attempting to hold the line on culture. But however he may wish to define Democrats by identity politics and Republicans by merit, the racism on daily display from MAGA TikTok suggests the core won't bend.
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ironic. Ramaswamy's GOP advice is to adopt classic, Clintonian, Democratic principles, while attempting to hold the line on culture. But however he may wish to define Democrats by identity politics and Republicans by merit, the racism on daily display from MAGA TikTok suggests the core won't bend.
Patience. If journalists and insiders are making book deals now, we'll be able to read about how democracy ended, as early as fall 2027, winter 2028.
October 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Patience. If journalists and insiders are making book deals now, we'll be able to read about how democracy ended, as early as fall 2027, winter 2028.
With apologies to Christopher Hitchens: 'The search for Nirvana, like the search for Felontopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.'
October 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
With apologies to Christopher Hitchens: 'The search for Nirvana, like the search for Felontopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.'
Like Latin, the language itself is elegant, but its practical utility in the current context has collapsed. Either the system needs new scribes, or the scribes need a new system.
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Like Latin, the language itself is elegant, but its practical utility in the current context has collapsed. Either the system needs new scribes, or the scribes need a new system.
Claim: USA founded on Christian values.
Facts: Declaration says "all men are created equal"; Constitution prohibits state religion.
Thus: "all men are created equal" & separation of church & state are, by nationalists' own logic, "Christian values."
And so: Christianity is incompatible with slavery.
Facts: Declaration says "all men are created equal"; Constitution prohibits state religion.
Thus: "all men are created equal" & separation of church & state are, by nationalists' own logic, "Christian values."
And so: Christianity is incompatible with slavery.
October 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Claim: USA founded on Christian values.
Facts: Declaration says "all men are created equal"; Constitution prohibits state religion.
Thus: "all men are created equal" & separation of church & state are, by nationalists' own logic, "Christian values."
And so: Christianity is incompatible with slavery.
Facts: Declaration says "all men are created equal"; Constitution prohibits state religion.
Thus: "all men are created equal" & separation of church & state are, by nationalists' own logic, "Christian values."
And so: Christianity is incompatible with slavery.
Weiss' question to 60 Minutes ("Why does the country think you’re biased?") is a power move disguised as sincere inquiry. 1) No one can answer why without first accepting the premise is settled fact; and 2) it re-frames Neutrality as Partisan. So, she knows exactly what she's doing or she does not.
October 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Weiss' question to 60 Minutes ("Why does the country think you’re biased?") is a power move disguised as sincere inquiry. 1) No one can answer why without first accepting the premise is settled fact; and 2) it re-frames Neutrality as Partisan. So, she knows exactly what she's doing or she does not.
An oligarch's invitation to debate on another oligarch's platform is a trap, not a conversation. The goal isn't to discuss the structural critique of power; it's to leverage a biased stage and an army of bots to neutralize that critique entirely.
October 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
An oligarch's invitation to debate on another oligarch's platform is a trap, not a conversation. The goal isn't to discuss the structural critique of power; it's to leverage a biased stage and an army of bots to neutralize that critique entirely.
I have seen the future and it is Zohran Kwame Mamdani.
October 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I have seen the future and it is Zohran Kwame Mamdani.
When the opposition is not labeled as 'people with different policies', but as terrorists, illegals, and criminals, -then the logical endpoint is a one-party state where dissent is treated as sedition and political rivals are treated as enemies of the state. That is their strategy.
October 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
When the opposition is not labeled as 'people with different policies', but as terrorists, illegals, and criminals, -then the logical endpoint is a one-party state where dissent is treated as sedition and political rivals are treated as enemies of the state. That is their strategy.
Is he doing what he promised, and do you support what he promised, are two different things, indeed.
October 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Is he doing what he promised, and do you support what he promised, are two different things, indeed.
Ethical reporting should do 3 things: Quote; Contextualize; Clarify. So, if a billionaire implicates human rights activists as the Antichrist, Journalism’s job isn’t to marvel at eccentricity. It’s to note demonization precedes dehumanization, which precedes and justifies any violence that follows.
October 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Ethical reporting should do 3 things: Quote; Contextualize; Clarify. So, if a billionaire implicates human rights activists as the Antichrist, Journalism’s job isn’t to marvel at eccentricity. It’s to note demonization precedes dehumanization, which precedes and justifies any violence that follows.
The most fascinating part to me isn't the falsehood, but diagnosing its origin. Is it a lie, a delusion, or performative politics? Or is it simply part of an intentional narrative strategy to justify ratcheting up control and preemptively sanctioning violence?
October 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The most fascinating part to me isn't the falsehood, but diagnosing its origin. Is it a lie, a delusion, or performative politics? Or is it simply part of an intentional narrative strategy to justify ratcheting up control and preemptively sanctioning violence?
ABC is wrong about which News is breaking, tho. The real story isn’t the indictment itself but the unintentional inversion of power it creates. Trump just gave one of the smartest, most strategic attorneys in New York another opportunity to prosecute him, only this time from the defendant’s bench.
October 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
ABC is wrong about which News is breaking, tho. The real story isn’t the indictment itself but the unintentional inversion of power it creates. Trump just gave one of the smartest, most strategic attorneys in New York another opportunity to prosecute him, only this time from the defendant’s bench.
Currencies may change hands, but the exchange rate on integrity keeps dropping.
October 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Currencies may change hands, but the exchange rate on integrity keeps dropping.
Make noise. Flatter power. Promise alignment. Take the money.
Milei might be the first person who actually read The Art of the Deal and used it against its author.
Milei might be the first person who actually read The Art of the Deal and used it against its author.
October 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Make noise. Flatter power. Promise alignment. Take the money.
Milei might be the first person who actually read The Art of the Deal and used it against its author.
Milei might be the first person who actually read The Art of the Deal and used it against its author.
The entire digital economy is built on this foundation. The fusion of billionaire narcissism and Silicon Valley's comic-book-villain ambition isn't a unique AI problem; it's the logical endpoint of a systemic economic disease.
October 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The entire digital economy is built on this foundation. The fusion of billionaire narcissism and Silicon Valley's comic-book-villain ambition isn't a unique AI problem; it's the logical endpoint of a systemic economic disease.
It's not new. In Elizabethan England, a courtier would wait all alone in the royal chambers, and upon seeing the face of a noble figure, identify them by name, and then say, "How may I assist you today, my liege?" 😁
October 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It's not new. In Elizabethan England, a courtier would wait all alone in the royal chambers, and upon seeing the face of a noble figure, identify them by name, and then say, "How may I assist you today, my liege?" 😁
The "both sides" rhetoric mistakes a moral conflict for a partisan one. There's no middle ground between democracy & autocracy, or between justice and injustice. The call to abandon an "us vs. them" frame is an oligarchical demand that we stop identifying the "them" who are actively breaking things.
October 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The "both sides" rhetoric mistakes a moral conflict for a partisan one. There's no middle ground between democracy & autocracy, or between justice and injustice. The call to abandon an "us vs. them" frame is an oligarchical demand that we stop identifying the "them" who are actively breaking things.
To be alive at a time that future generations will use as a cautionary tale and morality play. How fear warped our neighbors. How cruelty was normalized. How the game was broken.
October 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
To be alive at a time that future generations will use as a cautionary tale and morality play. How fear warped our neighbors. How cruelty was normalized. How the game was broken.
Politics has shifted from governance to performance. In this equation, attention is power and spectacle is the leadership.
October 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Politics has shifted from governance to performance. In this equation, attention is power and spectacle is the leadership.
Thank you for pulling me back from the edge before I pulled the trigger on a 4lb bag of Anthony's Vital Wheat Gluten from Amazon. 😄
September 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Thank you for pulling me back from the edge before I pulled the trigger on a 4lb bag of Anthony's Vital Wheat Gluten from Amazon. 😄