Navigating Chaos, Part 2
In Part I, I examined the problem of navigating chaos at the dawn of a new era in human consciousness by describing two broad and antithetical paradigms at play: The technological path, which aims...
Objects of Power
Humans are narrative creatures. Once, they weren’t. Sometime, many aeons ago - the true story of which keeps getting changed as the pesky evidence continues to contradict official dogma - humans were allegedly bestial...
The Virtue of Impatience
Several years ago, I argued against waiting for the right moment. With anything in life.
There is a voice speaking to me. It doesn’t want me to start writing. It never wants me to start...
Old Wine Into New Bottles
Darkness befalls the room. They blow out the candles and demand everyone to remain silent. You can hear whispers and murmurs coming from a small room in the back; unintelligible gibberish to the ears...
A Narrow Focus
The modern digital world is visually immersive. We are drawn towards image-saturated platforms like Instagram and Facebook like moths to a lamppost compared to platforms focusing on text expression, such as Twitter. But like...
On Curses In Stories
I’ve been tearing through stories with an almost feverish purpose. Mostly fantasy stories, fairy tales, classic Disney animated films (the good ones, not the dreck that they’ve been putting out lately, the stuff that...
Of Work and Content
I am an idler at heart, a loafer, a layabout. I’m all for the via contemplativa, if by that we mean a life of gentle people-watching and light-reading and hammocks and conversations and such....
Welcome to Wilderland
Adventure has been on my mind, as of late. It seems to me that the narratives that have gripped our collective consciousness, especially in 2020 and in early 2021, have largely been built from...
Building and Navigating an Uncertain Future
It would be an understatement to say these are unusual and uncertain times. Times that make us question our plans, our hopes, and our dreams. Everything in our reality appears to be inverted or...
Better Mythologies, Better Heroes
We are in uncertain times; the old guards are being torn down and the meta-conflict we’re experiencing is an impotent, “let’s return to business as usual” versus a similarly weak opposition crying, “we’re never...
