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V - How the fourth lock is being sold

Reflections on the Human Condition

VI - The Signs in the Horizons

Reflections on the Human Condition IX - On the synthetic sovereign and the cage shaped like a throne
I - The Crowning

IV. Brave New World

What you are seeking is seeking you. This essay cannot tell you what that means. It can only clear some of the furniture that is in the way.

VI. The Agora and the Feed

Essay VI · On Friction, Feeling, and the Parenting of a Species

The Pseudo-Religions and What They Are Actually Reaching For

In Arabic they rhyme — sharaf or alaff - The realities they name could not be further apart.

The Global South as the Last Unenclosed Ground

Reflections on the human condition. The 600-year project of enclosing what was common — and the philosophy hired to make it look inevitable

Reflections on the Human Condition IX - On the synthetic sovereign and the cage shaped like a throne
I - The Crowning

Reflections on the Human Condition — The Center - On the circle of existence, the centrifugal civilization, and what was always at the center of everything

What you are seeking is seeking you. This essay cannot tell you what that means. It can only clear some of the furniture that is in the way.

Essay VI · On Friction, Feeling, and the Parenting of a Species

In Arabic they rhyme — sharaf or alaff - The realities they name could not be further apart.

Reflections on the human condition. The 600-year project of enclosing what was common — and the philosophy hired to make it look inevitable

How the world was formatted for smooth playback — and what we lost in the buffering

Don't feed both sides of yourself equally. The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attention. Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry. — Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī, Masnavi

A reflection on epistemology, media, and the fate of truth