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No Coincidences
Adapting a new, more effective democracy. The fusion of governance and media is an undeniable historical reality, yet our perspective remains clouded by a lack of modern context. We are currently witnessing a catastrophic misalignment: our democratic institutions, forged in… Continue reading
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Building An American Culture
Applying context to one cornerstone of our society. ** I took some notes that have been clogging up my notebook for far too long and put them into Google Gemini, asking it to write an essay in the style of… Continue reading
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The Shakespeare Variation
The rise and fall of communication (civilization). Imagine a typical group of teenagers hanging out on a street corner, or a ball field, or a shopping mall, and a friend of theirs approached from having been somewhere else all day.… Continue reading
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The Physics of Steering
Dystopia begins in our mind, regardless of our environment. When I was young, for a few years in a row, a chunk of my extended family would take a canoe trip down a small Connecticut river. A bunch of cousins… Continue reading
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Reacting To Processes
Long ago, when I was just a wee one, my parents divorced. Overall, I consider their divorce a good thing, but I cannot deny the impact it had on me and my siblings. In purely typical fashion, we reacted like… Continue reading
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The Ritual For The Next Civilization
Religious observance of the first civilization was simply paying reverence at a temple. Taking a moment, a break in the day, to slow and settle the mind and refocus. Religious observance of the second civilization is reciting a memorized prayer.… Continue reading
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