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The Age of Human Arrogance, Part IV
There comes a moment in every age when humanity must confront the mirror it has spent centuries avoiding. That mirror does not flatter us. It reveals a species that has mastered the sciences of destruction while neglecting the simple art of living. It reveals a creature that speaks of peace while perfecting the machinery of […]
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Out of Time
If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin “The Storyteller,” 1936 Today’s rustlers are stealing the silence needed to allow stories to percolate in our minds. […]
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From Alternative to Echo Chamber: Why Podcasts Are Starting to Look Like MSM
Like many others, I abandoned mainstream media long ago. The endless spin, shallow reporting, and predictable and propagandist narratives made it unbearable. Podcasts once seemed like the antidote: raw, unfiltered, and intellectually daring. But after countless hours of listening, I’ve begun to notice something unsettling: the global podcast universe is slowly morphing into the very […]
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There Is No Escape From Telling
By the lake’s lapping shore above the town and the railroad tracks, my wife and I stopped and marveled, struck stone silent by two dazzling Baltimore Orioles, clawed together as they tumbled, wrestling in the green morning breeze above our heads. They perched upon a branch and sang a morning hymn, an ode to joy […]