So much of what is considered science today is really just art. It’s a subjective interpretation of the meaning of data. Data does not speak for itself. It does not tell you cause and effect. It provides no predictive map.
The Problem Is Solved by Art, Not Science Read Journal Article
It occurs to me to be grateful about all that we have regained in these 50 years. Despite everything, the place of freedom and family and community does seem to have made a comeback.
The Spirit of Respect Read Journal Article
Storytelling is ancient. It goes back to prehistory and is much more developed in the spoken word. Written stories only became widespread with the use of movable type. Some of the most important works we consider as “literature” are older than books.
The Art and Science of Storytelling Read Journal Article
The infrastructure is visible to those willing to see it. The systematic replacement of natural systems with artificial ones has reached into every domain—money, health, education, information. What began as isolated changes has revealed itself as a coordinated operation.
From Fiat Everything to Real Everything Read Journal Article
There is no reconciliation possible between the two competing modes of moral thinking that arose out of modernity; law, duty, intention, and consequences all really do matter, and the deontologist and consequentialist are always going to be talking past each other.
Consequentialism Discredited Read Journal Article
The era of corporate EBM is over, and the future of medicine is decentralized, N-of-1, non-corporate, non-government, person-to-person, direct primary care, based on the totality of evidence, decency, life experience, dialogue, and personal values.
Creating human substitutes with AI is technically clever and somehow deeply pathetic. More so when effort is made to convince us it is better than the real thing. Many will fall for it, and in the process, degrade humanity itself.
Reclaiming the Beauty of the Spheres Read Journal Article
The focus of this essay is the philosophical position that, in the case of public health, it is acceptable to mandate that members of society accept a medical treatment without granting personal informed consent, justified as necessary.
“Woke” Bioethics Tyranny Read Journal Article
If “dead enough” becomes a metric, the countdown has already started—not just for the patient, but for our collective faith in medicine’s ability to serve something higher than its own efficiency.
When “Dead Enough” Becomes a Metric Read Journal Article
We can remind ourselves, and them: we already belong. Not to the algorithm, not to the audience, not to the machine—but to ourselves, to each other, to the earth, to whatever rhythm once made being human feel like enough.
The Golden Idol Machine Read Journal Article
I’m grateful every day for those two months. I’ll never forget them or regret them. Solitude leveraged with strategic self-developmental learning beats TikTok and social media addiction any time of day. I recommend it as the best Return On Investment.
The Return on Investment of Isolation Read Journal Article
What has changed is that there has been a concerted psychological campaign to effectively insert abstract and often empirically questionable paradigms of sickness between individual citizens and their understanding of their own bodies.
We’ve Let Them Get Deep Inside Our Heads and Our Communal Lives Read Journal Article
