Evolution

  • Predictable Arrogance

    The Insider Traders expected Iran to do what they always do; turn the other cheek. Create some fear, move the markets a bit, and make a killing. You know… business as usual. But now, Iran has become the Tar Baby… Continue reading

    Predictable Arrogance
  • 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

  • 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

    The Shakespeare Variation
  • 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

    The Physics of Steering
  • 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

    Reacting To Processes
  • 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

    The Ritual For The Next Civilization