The Playmobil Society vs. The Game of Nations
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Our models represent, largely, a collaborative social universe, where people play by rules, say what they mean, and act with honesty and integrity — and where... Read more.
Hope in the Heart of Winter
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Hiraeth may, indeed, embody a romantic, and at times overly mythical, sense of melancholy. But it is also a longing for some sort of vision conjured from the me... Read more.
Awaken Aletheia!
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We have access today to more information from more parts of the globe than we have had at any previous point in human history, and we spend hours every day peru... Read more.
Welcome to the Dying Earth
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There are always forces in this world that pull us down into the muck and mire. In our day-to-day pursuit of happiness, desire, entertainment, and survival, it ... Read more.
A Myth-Making Toolkit from the Volcano’s Shadow
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Collective consciousness, especially when it spans multiple centuries, carries immense power; but many of us have lost our communal ties and our sense of histor... Read more.
A Unifying Theory of Evil
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Many of us can recognize the results of evil intuitively: evil causes vast human suffering; revokes our sense of human dignity; creates an ugly, dystopian, or d... Read more.
Covidianism Inverts the Heroic Archetype
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The myth of the hero does not teach us to eradicate life’s pains and risks in pursuit of only comfort and safety. That is the doctrine of the animal. Rather, ... Read more.
The Boy Who Trapped Death in a Nut
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Life is a messy, risky, and at times lethal adventure, and while it’s perfectly acceptable and in fact compassionate to try to lower this risk to some extent,... Read more.
The Selfish Collective
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A truly prosocial approach would not shut out all other goals and insist on one way forward. It would take into account the different priorities and viewpoints ... Read more.
The Left/Right Divide is Obsolete
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This is an existential, mythic moment, during which we have to decide: what forces are we going to allow to shape our identities? Our social infrastructure? Our... Read more.