Arrogance, Ignorance, or Both?
What is the relationship between education, knowledge, and wisdom? This is not a trivial question, and the ramifications are far from obvious. Our lives may literally depend on it. Let me illustrate the problem.
We Need to Do Better Than Another Enlightenment
We won’t throw off our new and different shackles by romanticizing the oppressive societies in which these masterpieces were born. We had better aim for something far more noble than the past.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Politics is a lagging indicator of consciousness. Maybe the consciousness behind organic, regenerative, and permaculture practices—tracing a lineage from indigenous and traditional roots through Steinbeck and Steiner—is strong enough now to alter the soulless juggernaut of agricultural policy.
Rise and Fall of the Neuralink Society
Totalitarianism is ultimately a campaign against the Soul. It represents a law elevated to absurdity, a rule that has lost all touch with love. It forces life into servitude; it transforms man into a soulless machine.
Who’s Afraid of the AI Boogeyman?
There are some areas of human activity where one need not fear AI, and then there are others where such fears are legitimate, sometimes because of the manner in which unscrupulous people harness AI against other people.
To Reclaim Our Nature
If “new things” are what have brought us to this crisis, then it is “old things” that become the weapons of the counter-revolution. Faith, family, community, and nature itself ground us in the reality of who we really are as humans.
What Is the State and Who Controls It?
What is the state, from whence does it come, and who controls it? One might suppose these questions have obvious answers. In reality the answer is elusive, not easily identified even by those who are part of the system.
We Stopped Practicing Capitalism
We must ask ourselves honestly: Are we still mirroring nature? Or have we started mimicking a machine, a top-down system built on control, not connection? Because what we mirror shapes what we become.
Together, Apart
What do all these “Babel moments” have in common? If we recognize the moment while we are in it, can we do something to change our course, to make the outcome less disastrous than it might otherwise be?
Too Big to Fail
Whether on the plains of Shirah or in a lab in Marburg, faith in human technology outpaces our ability to focus and mold it. The “We can, so we will” attitude barrels us ahead without the guidance of whether “We should.”
Charlie Kirk and Socrates
In short, it appears that, as several commentators have observed – and as we know from history – in death, Charlie Kirk is proving to be much stronger than in life. This has always been the case with martyrs.
The Theater of the Absurd Ends with a Whimper
You’ll know it’s over in earnest when, just as in Covid, people start changing jerseys and claiming to have played for the other side all along. It’s already starting. And just like Covid, it will be slowly, slowly, then all at once.
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