By Eric Le Roy
“The world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel” – Horace Walpole
“Only the Lonely” was the signature song of a guy named Roy Orbison, a star in the early rock’ n’ roll era. Orbison died in 1988 of a heart attack at the age of 52. Songs are full of lonely guys; they were back … Read the rest
(Sex as Performance Art)
By Eric Le Roy
Since in life as well as fiction, what gets left out is often even more interesting than what goes in – and since civilization is art as much as anthropology – I have sometimes wondered how sex fits into the Grand Scheme of things, especially from the psychological aspect, and for pleasure as well as mere procreation of species. For … Read the rest
The servers hum like a cathedral made of cold breath. Rows of black monoliths exhale heat into a winter of fluorescent light, and somewhere in that machine midnight—so we’re told—there might be a version of you. Not your pulse, not your messy, mammalian chemistry, but a pattern: the way you turned a sentence, the laugh you couldn’t help, the heat map of your choices. It’s a seduction with chrome edges. … Read the rest
Effective 11th August 2025
As of today, full ownership and management of this website, including its domain name and all associated content, has been officially transferred to Eric Le Roy.
From this date forward, all editorial, administrative, and operational responsibilities will be managed solely by Eric Le Roy. The previous owner will have no further involvement in the operation, content creation, or direction of the site.
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Wisdom, Power, and the Future
Content 18+ It is a strange time to be alive when the most powerful people in the world are closer in age to the invention of television than to TikTok. The 21st century—a century that should belong to youth, AI, climate science, and social reinvention—is increasingly governed by men whose cultural memory includes the Cuban Missile Crisis and dial-up modems as high tech.
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