Archive - The Metaphor

High Agency to Do What?

Seeking agency is a local status trap.

Aug 9 •

James Taylor Foreman

July 2025

The New Renaissance Will Be Techno-Rural

Stealing fire from Silicon Valley and bringing it to your home town.

Jul 26 •

James Taylor Foreman

The Disenchantment of the Modern World Is a Myth

The ‘meaningless cosmos’ was manufactured by those who could not resolve their own contradictions.

Jul 13 •

James Taylor Foreman

June 2025

I Want to Be a Hero

But the death of place makes it impossible.

Jun 14 •

James Taylor Foreman

October 2024

Harry Potter and the Dark Lord of the Third Reich

The creation myth of modernity.

Oct 17, 2024 •

James Taylor Foreman

September 2024

The Religious Impulse to Return to the '90s

Sacred and profane time.

Sep 24, 2024 •

James Taylor Foreman

The Sea Mammal Theory of Writing

Fish out of water... and then back in again.

Sep 19, 2024 •

James Taylor Foreman

It's Just a Dream

How to use dreams to become wise.

Sep 16, 2024 •

James Taylor Foreman

Dead Poets and The Devil’s Waterhole

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau

Sep 6, 2024 •

James Taylor Foreman

I See Nietzsche Fall Like Lightning

On the dissident right.

Sep 5, 2024 •

James Taylor Foreman

March 2024

Why I am Christian again

Puncturing the vault of heaven to rediscover earth.

Mar 31, 2024 •

James Taylor Foreman

February 2024

Large Language Messiah

A false prophecy.

Feb 24, 2024 •

James Taylor Foreman

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