There are days when I feel our species is a kind of orchestra that forgot the score but still plays with great confidence. Violins screaming in different keys, trumpets improvising in panic, the conductor having a small existential crisis. And yet, we insist with straight faces that this is rational decision-making. Kahneman, Sibony, and Sunstein gave a polite scientific name to this chaos: noise. Personally, I think they were … Read the rest
There’s a special kind of language that doesn’t tell you what’s happening—it tells you what to feel about it. It’s an art form, really. A performance where words pretend to inform but actually sedate. Bureaucrats, generals, and “information managers” have refined it into a linguistic ballet: graceful, bloodless, and utterly lethal to thought.
It’s called doublespeak. Or, in the more poetic tongues of the East, necro-speak—the language of the … Read the rest
I don’t believe in rewriting history—whether it’s Making America Great Again or Making America Native Again. The past is written, and no amount of nostalgia or revision can change it. But if we entertain the idea of turning back the clock, then let’s at least be honest about whose clock we’re turning. Because if MAGA sounds reasonable to you, then MANA—Make America Native Again—should too.
Content 21+ It is time, … Read the rest
Content 18+ In response to the insightful article by Eric, one cannot help but marvel at the sheer singularity of the times in which we live. As Donald J. Trump takes the helm of the nation for a second term, history seems to have delivered precisely the figure we deserve at this moment. His re-election is not merely an affirmation of his policies; it is a testament to the … Read the rest
