Craig Maciolek

  • Mythology

    Every now and then I like to use a graph of some sort to augment what I am writing about. Unfortunately, these graphics take me forever to make because they occur so infrequently I can never remember how I made… Continue reading

  • Children Have No Boundaries

    Sitting back and relaxing, watching a football game with a friend. I don’t care about the game, or the sport, much less either of the teams,.. but my friend is an ardent fan of one team playing. As a casual… Continue reading

  • Parasitic Industries

    A Fractal Thought Exercise Imagine a professional sports industry whose league executives decided that it was beneficial to all if they manipulated the games to be more entertaining. They would do this by having the referees call fouls, or not… Continue reading

  • The Macro “Secret”

    It is not too difficult to understand logically where the next famine is coming from, but it is very tricky to see it in real time. We all know how important it is to have a positive attitude in this… Continue reading

  • Visions and Revisions

    For some decades, our vision of our society has been deteriorating. Exponentially becoming less communal, less social, and more individualistic. Brutal individualism. Never mind the illusion social media creates. A single person alone can be rigid to their vision, if… Continue reading

  • The Peeling Fire

    Famine comes on like a fire: slow at first, mostly smoke, then the conflagration builds exponentially to consume everything; peeling away the layers of decadence. The brochure life, built around the objects and routines that convey the illusion of maturity,… Continue reading