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.

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Latest News: My website is being re-constructed. For the time being, this website serves to archive my works!!

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  • '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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    Welcome to my homepage. They serve as an archive of my works. Read them

    here and embark on a journey... where this world leads to! Below is my latest work. I wish it was just a horror story...

     

  • 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?

    •  Contact me at mathew(at)maavak(dot)net

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