The Metaphor

Outer Space Is Down

Where the heavens go when they can’t be up.

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October 2025

Choosing Penelope

A case for marriage.

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August 2025

The TV Child

The unique and dangerous structure of minds molded by TV.

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High Agency to Do What?

Seeking agency is a local status trap.

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July 2025

The New Renaissance Will Be Techno-Rural

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

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The Disenchantment of the Modern World Is a Myth

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

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June 2025

I Want to Be a Hero

But the death of place makes it impossible.

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October 2024

Harry Potter and the Dark Lord of the Third Reich

The creation myth of modernity.

Oct 17, 2024 • 

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September 2024

The Religious Impulse to Return to the '90s

Sacred and profane time.

Sep 24, 2024 • 

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The Sea Mammal Theory of Writing

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

Sep 19, 2024 • 

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It's Just a Dream

How to use dreams to become wise.

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Dead Poets and The Devil’s Waterhole

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

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