Maciolekism

The Pursuit of Context

It took me a long time to learn, frustratingly brutal trial and error, fighting presumptions and misconceptions, but eventually I realized that all of my writing leads to this work: Maciolekism. My very own philosophy.

Latest Posts

  • Technology’s Religion

    If I were king, I would have at least one hour a year where everyone in the nation would unplug their routers and computers, and turn off their phones. All at the same time. It would be for security at… Continue reading

  • Lost at Sea

    It is a difficult thing to navigate through this world by the feel of the energy around us. If we instinctively keep to the calmest waters, our reactions will get us into chaos just as much as they will lead… Continue reading

  • There Are Always Opposites

    Day and night, winter and summer. If there is an Edward Snowden, who saw illegal operations and programs and decided to become a whistle blower, then there are also people who saw illegal operations and programs and decided to exploit… Continue reading

  • Everyone Writes Fiction

    An individual mind must continuously rewrite memories to gain a better understanding of current circumstances. The goal is confidence and survival in the current environment, not the accuracy of past memories. This is no different at every level of the… Continue reading

  • Contemplating Ataraxia and Pleasure

    Recently the concept of Ataraxia was brought up in a rather disjointed way. (I am a big fan of how certain ideas or concepts can simply arrive at specific times.) It came in reference to the Buddhist belief that desire… Continue reading

  • The Modern Apocalypse

    We celebrate wealth and opulence.We belittle humility and stability.Flying to and fro,buying more and more.Never noticing that the workers serving this decadence are organizing into the oldest of unions. Delivery drivers case homes and neighborhoods, bank tellers and doctor receptionists… Continue reading

  • The Full Cycle

    We have the power to use our focus and intent to make the environment around us as we imagine it should be, but we do not have the power to stop time or arrest our own maturation process. Either our… Continue reading

  • The Root of Morality

    When we have a goal, we must develop and maintain principles that guide and align our behaviors and routines to achieve that goal. The larger the goal, the more people must be involved who share the desire to achieve that… Continue reading

  • Visions

    A vision, a point on the horizon, must be close enough to know that it is there, but far enough away to accept that it is vague. The distance and vagueness gives us freedom to adapt to our current environment.… Continue reading

  • A Holy Trinity

    A person is ordered to do something they do not want to do,but they do it out of fear,..fear of the person ordering it,fear of being judged or criticized, orfear of being alone. At what point does thelove for another… Continue reading