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The Immanence of Everything

The Immanence of Everything Tardigrade photo by Frank Fox at www.mikro-foto.de, from wikimedia CC-BY-SA 3.0 Recently I’ve been reading more of the work of Parul Sehgal, whose article laying out the dangers of stories inspired my last article on immanence, which is perhaps the best piece of writing I have ever done. Stories, she suggested, might be a […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXV–Rackets: Keeping the Curtains on Reality Drawn

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXV Monte Alban, Mexcio (1988). Photo by author. Today’s Contemplation is my comment on The Honest Sorcerer’s latest article that looks at the financial nature of our modern world. Rackets: Keeping the Curtains on Reality Drawn Excellent summation of our predicament and how reality is being ‘hidden’ by the story-telling nature of our […]

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Life in a Heroic Society

Life in a Heroic Society …where the hero’s journey might soon come to an unexpected end Image credit: Mehdi MeSSrro via Unsplash We live in a heroic society. Marvel heroes and heroines rule the small and not so small glowing screens, political and war heroes shape our societies future. Or at least, that’s what they think […]

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The clickbait future of news and our crisis of consensus

The clickbait future of news and our crisis of consensus It’s often hard to distinguish between what has come to be known as “clickbait”—which according to Dictionary.com is “a sensationalized headline or piece of text on the internet designed to entice people to follow a link to an article on another web page”—and simply a […]

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People Will Never, Ever Rebel As Long As They’re Successfully Propagandized

People Will Never, Ever Rebel As Long As They’re Successfully Propagandized Our predicament is simple to describe. Since the dawn of civilization, powerful individuals have controlled the stories people tell themselves about who they are, who’s in charge, how a good citizen behaves, what groups should be loved, what groups should be hated, and what’s […]

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Do we Need a New Myth, or No Myth?

Do we Need a New Myth, or No Myth? This is the true, biggest challenge I’m facing as a writer and thinker. Myth: Do we need a new one, or do we need to dispense with them altogether? I used to direct theater. I left the theater because I got increasingly dissatisfied with its reliance […]

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Propaganda, Human Consciousness, And The Future Of Civilization

Propaganda, Human Consciousness, And The Future Of Civilization A duck floats past two fish, looks down and says “Morning boys! How’s the water?” The fish swim on for a bit, then one of them turns to the other and says, “What the fuck is water?” Corporatist propaganda is to western civilization what water is to […]

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Trapped in a Narrative

Trapped in a Narrative I’ve addressed the issue a hundred times, and it pains me to see it only gets worse. But it does. And it’s not my pain that counts, it has no meaning whatsoever, it’s the fact that we are inching ever closer to the kind of situations none of us would choose. […]

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Home Economicus: An Endangered Species

Home Economicus: An Endangered Species The modern world is full of myths. I’m not talking about Greek legends or medieval lore, but the shared stories and constructs underpinning our beliefs and behaviours. We need myths—they help us understand and feel in control of our world—but when they blind us to reality, they can serve as […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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