Yog Sothoth found at joncoulthart.com
Who We Are: The R'lyeh Institute for Policy, Strategy,
What We Believe: We believe that the most merciful thing in the world is that your human brains cannot correlate all its contents. However, we also believe that you meat-sacks can do better than you are. Strategic thinking, connecting domestic and foreign policies, and understanding the interaction between your society and those beyond its borders are not your strong suit right now. We Great Old Ones did put life here on Earth for our amusement and exploitation but, after all these aeons, we had really hoped you'd have a better grasp of what's going on than you do now. If anything, you might be getting worse.
Since the Great Old Ones have all the time in the universe before we wake up, and it won't make a nightgaunt's tickle's worth of difference how smart you are when we do, several of us formed RIPSHIT to help humanity along. Then, when we wake up and eat you all, we won't be quite so embarrassed.
What We Do: RIPSHIT collates news and information (from papers, policy documents, journals and books) to produce wild-ass speculation focused analysis in the following areas, as embodied in its wicked awesome acronym:
Policy and Strategy are inextricably linked, and the increasing overlap and interaction of domestic and foreign policies and their impact on strategy is not always apparent or understood. Policy is easy to enforce and strategy is easy to execute for Great Cthulhu, but not without its difficulties - Cthulhu is psychically linked to extraterrestrial minions of his own creation and can command their minds, in lockstep with his own, instantaneously to govern their actions. Humans however do not enjoy this connection no matter what the latest "New Age Metaphysics" may say. So until such a time as you can all be bred with Deep Ones, dreams are what the few (but growing in number) of you insane, psychically un-linked humans get. Even then there are more than enough of you who screw it up, thanks to this "interpretation" ability of yours. Trust me; Star Spawn are so much easier to deal with.
History, Ideas and Technology have gone a long way to shape the world in which man lives today into an insane, cacophony that may one day turn Cthulhu's dreams into reality. History provides valuable context to the study of strategy, and in many cases shows that mankind has "been there" before. However, the evolution of ideas and technology will often mask or alter any resemblance to history to such a point where you fleshy-headed individuals must often come together with your various interpretations and think (or, not - which always makes it more interesting for us!) about how to deal with these new twists.
Highly Incomplete Thinking is what you get from a free think tank with zero demand for its services. Caveat emptor, humans: if you want real analysis, go to people who know what the Hell they are doing. Readers are encouraged to contribute their own thoughts to help reduce the highly incomplete thinking so that it is only Semi-Highly Incomplete Thinking. Readers so clueless as to miss that last acronym should skip this site and find a policy blog that might actually have some merit to it.
Highly Incomplete Thinking is what you get from a free think tank with zero demand for its services. Caveat emptor, humans: if you want real analysis, go to people who know what the Hell they are doing. Readers are encouraged to contribute their own thoughts to help reduce the highly incomplete thinking so that it is only Semi-Highly Incomplete Thinking. Readers so clueless as to miss that last acronym should skip this site and find a policy blog that might actually have some merit to it.
Most importantly, we hope you will find RIPSHIT useful in mentally sifting through the condition of your psychically unconnected species as the stars drift closer to their proper alignments over these strange aeons. Please feel free to visit, read and comment as we build this site.
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Yog Sothoth
Chief Operating Officer
RIPSHIT
