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

  • The Coming Auto Industry Collapse

    I have seen many stories about the auto industry’s hard road ahead. Stories about the struggling economy and the increasing cost of owning a car, questions of fuel supply and environmental concerns, and how young people are simply losing interest.… Continue reading

  • The Light Switch Metaphor

    Imagine a ten story building. There are ten rooms on each floor, and one large basement room. In the basement there is a panel of one hundred standard light switches, not marked or labeled in any way. Also in the… Continue reading

  • Building A Life

    At one end of the spectrum there are people who consider the concept of “Building a Life” strictly in material terms. They work to acquire certain objects to arrange them around themselves for everyone to see. They even consider other… Continue reading

  • I, America

    I am at a place of great change. Everyone around me knows it, and I am acutely aware,.. and sensitive. Like a cat. Not only of my individual predicament, but of the pressure from all of those around me.  At… Continue reading

  • A Constant Battle

    Crime and injustice will always exist, and must always be fought against. It is a simple fact of nature and evolution. Accurate scholarship will show that at a certain point in population growth organized crime becomes a standard feature of… Continue reading

  • An Asteroid Called Progress

    1683 Two figures sit late at night in the dim candlelight of a small hut mending the tools they use during the day. “Hey… be sure to tie that proper.” “I can never remember.” “How many times do I have… Continue reading

  • Hard Work

    Life is full of hard work; begins and ends with hard work; and that hard work comes in many forms. Hard work can be physical; like picking an elderly lady, crying and embarrassed, up from the floor. Hard work can… Continue reading

  • Nature’s Supreme Warrior

    Any and every individual, institution, or society that builds itself around fear will be defeated by the same insurmountable force… Reality. Denial and fantasy, fantasies about possible future solutions, are two equally effective ways to become vulnerable to reality. Continue reading

  • Unconditional Resolve

    Nature is not concerned with right and wrong, or good and evil. These are human concepts created to give ourselves permission. Nature only cares about what works; what functions properly. The trick to this is that Nature, and all of… Continue reading

  • Denial

    So many answers, so much arrogance about knowledge and logic, and yet no solutions. Continue reading