By Eric Le Roy
I can’t decide whether the human mind is an ingeniously crafted, highly resilient aircraft, purposeful in its mission, and headed somewhere as it navigates the turbulence of the skies – or is it (the human mind) nothing but turbulence itself – often of the open air?
Insanity is a universal and timeless issue. No culture has ever been … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ It strikes me increasingly as ironic that the same people who revel in the onslaught of technology, AI, and the advanced capabilities of genetic engineering are often the same ones who cling to the supposedly inviolable sanctity of the ‘human spirit’, and – even worse in my book – of human ‘dignity’. It’s as if ‘love will find a way’ or Batman … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ I used to ask myself a question which, though I now know my choice, continues to nibble at me like mice in the basement of my psyche. The question was this: If I had the opportunity to live the life of every human being who ever existed – one by one – would I? I test my memory, twisting road that it … Read the rest
Content 16+ The universe, in its infinite wisdom (or lack thereof), operates under laws that are indisputably consistent. Drop an apple, and it will plummet with no regard for whether you are Newton or a hapless pedestrian beneath a fruit-bearing tree. The stars burn, the planets spin, and gravity persists, utterly indifferent to petitions for fairness. This brings us to the grand question: Is the universe governed by fairness, or … Read the rest
Content 21+ In his article The More, The Merrier, Eric Le Roy offers us a sweeping, grand, and altogether delightful eulogy for human progress. The gist of it, if I may summarize, is this: humanity is a snarling, territorial beast, doomed to repeat its primal mistakes forever—so much so that any attempt at improvement is as futile as trying to teach calculus to a goldfish. Immigration, in particular, is … Read the rest
