Our Games Don’t Matter — and That’s the Good News
From Plato’s cave to billionaires’ tantrums — why our egos are less important than bees.
Independent essays on society, philosophy, and the art of staying human in a world that forgets how.
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Start with some of my favorite essays
Who’s the Narcissist? Projection, Ego, and the Modern Witch Hunt
How projection, ego, and misunderstanding created the modern myth of a narcissism epidemic
Why Systemic Change Always Fails — And What Actually Matters
What Chomsky Missed, What Lao Tzu Pointed Out, and the Deeper Truth Behind All Systems
The Great Importance of People Who Don’t Belong
Why those who don’t fit in often move the world forward
Meditation Is Not a Tool for Self-Improvement
And whenever you meditate to improve yourself, you’re not meditating, but dreaming
Wu Wei - The Art of Effortless Action
How we can achieve more by doing less and not forcing anything
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On the Problem of Being a “Citizen of the World”
Mobility, autonomy, and the asymmetry of belonging
The Ethics of Illusion
Why truth without readiness can become a form of violence
The Ceremony That Never Ends
On symbols, delayed reality, and the quiet theft of agency.
The Philosophers We Imagine vs. The Humans They Actually Were
Socrates wouldn’t be offline — he’d be in the comments.
The Strange Case of the Em Dash in the Age of AI Anxiety
When writers start policing punctuation to prove they’re human, you know the machines have already won.
Why People Fear Writers — and What It Reveals About Us
In an age of speed and distraction, reflection has become an act of resistance.
