Most people hear ‘modern slavery’ and picture trafficking victims or sweatshop workers—suffering that’s clearly visible, obviously wrong. What if the most effective slavery in history isn’t hidden—but public, celebrated, and defended by the very people it enslaves?
The Modern Slave Continue Reading
All of this has to go, to be replaced by mediated experiences scripted by large institutions both public and private. This way, we are all dependent. Our lives can be turned on and off depending on the will of our masters.
Freedom in a Post-Covid World Continue Reading
Admitting stupidity is the third rail of the American psyche. In addition, I have found that stupid actions tend to be based on rigid ideology or fear, both of which are hard to overcome.
Needed: Stupid Anonymous Continue Reading
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 Continue Reading
If the purpose of Eddington is to bring some honesty to the table, I doubt it will work, despite the film’s astonishing brilliance. One can only hope that Eddington is the first of many more films along these lines.
Brilliant “Eddington” Plunges Viewers Right Back to 2020 Continue Reading
Isn’t it time we stop enticing our young females into the workplace on the idea that is the prime space of growth before they’ve even been exposed to the ideas that have animated female purposefulness and joy throughout the ages?
Wage-and-Tax Slavery as Emancipation? Continue Reading
The Kalfas study falls short. By relying on short-term, industry-funded data and ignoring the lived reality of withdrawal, it downplays a public health crisis hiding in plain sight. Starting an antidepressant is easy. But stopping can be the hardest part.
Antidepressant Withdrawal: Why Do Researchers Keep Downplaying It? Continue Reading
The stand that Father Hughes took was striking, not just for its defiance, but because it was so rare. I ask myself why didn’t other priests, pastors, and ministers stand up against this tyranny like Father Hughes did.
The Priest Who Kept His Church Open Continue Reading
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 Continue Reading
Our prime task is the unglamorous—and for many in this culture that worships action for action’s sake—unsatisfying task of circling back to things like love, compassion, friendship, touch, and sincere dialogue that lie at the core of being human.
Ideological Firewalls Work Quite Well…Until They Don’t Continue Reading
We are in the middle of what may be the biggest fertility crisis in the history of mankind. The governments of many European countries have the data that would unlock the mystery. Yet, it seems that no one wants to know.
Net Zero: The Mystery of the Falling Fertility Continue Reading
I want to address a new strain of an existing challenge – emotional regulation. Imagine a 15-year-old boy and the challenges he has with impulse control. Now imagine a 13-year-old brain in that body. What would be the expected result?
The Kids Are Not Alright Continue Reading
