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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

When the Good Boys Are the Real Bad Boys

Bad Faith, Male Rage, and the Rise of Right Wing Authoritarianism and Left Wing Totalitarianism

A man must never admit
that what he wants
more than anything
is to be told what to do
 
Instead
he subjects everyone else
to what he hates most in himself

Other works by Chris Gaither...
The PESMism of Post-Enlightenment Secular Materialism Reaches Its Inevitable Dead End as Hope Springs Eternal

As we grasp for total control And everything spins out of contro… God reminds us of all that is beyo… Which is everything But for what we believe
All Scenarios Are Use Case Scenarios

You’ve used others When you use your talents To serve yourself You’ve used God When you use your talents
If You Are Saved From Your Undoing, You Can’t Be Saved By Your Undoing

Guilty, I’d pled when left for dead for what I had said but as the undead squeezed my bonehead
“You gotta fight for your right to party”

It all clicked for me when I realized that Hebrew School Is a party school
Time Is Up

A la recherche du temps perdu has been variously translated as A Remembrance of Things Past and In Search of Lost Time
I Need to Know What “Kol Divrei Hashira Hazot” Means

God’s relationship with us Is on a need-to-know basis: Whatever we need to know He will tell us– In fact, He already has
The Fall of Man to Machine Learning

Whether or not “art is the proper task of life” the transition to AI-generated synthetic media will complete the debasement of th…
Materialism Is an Antisemitism, but This, Along with God, Is Unbelievable to Materialists, Making Antisemitism a Projection of the Guilt That All Materialists Feel at Giving Way on Their Deepest Desire: God Is Always Our Deepest Desire

Riddle me this: The Riddler commits crimes of the… By loving each and every one of us… But always leaves clues behind In the form of a riddle
Gentlemen, we can repurpose him. We have the theology. We can make him better than he was. Stronger, kinder, humbler.

All behavior is purposeful and all behavior is self-serving until you realize that all behavior is self-serving which is when you find out what ha…
In That Case, Let’s See What’s Behind Door #3

In Putin’s version of Let’s Make… he shows you what’s behind Door #1… - You let Putin run you through w… AND what’s behind Door #2: - You fall on your sword to atone…
It All Happened in Broad Daylight

You can watch my disappearing act as long as you’ve turned your back on the light allowing you to see a mere shadow of myself
Fire Ants On a Log

It was only after we debuted our sugar coated raisins to fight back against Craisins that I realized you could win hearts and minds
“Belief is that upon which one is prepared to act”

In real life we used to say I’ll see your talk and raise you action but that was just too risky Preferring no stakes
What Do You Get the AI Who Lacks Nothing?

AI can’t desire so it is taking over the world because we desire it imagining that AI will tell us exactly what to do
Love Is an Appearing Act

The One Ring had it backwards The one thing that bestows power is



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