There is a particular silence that lives beneath the noise of the internet. A low-frequency hum of unfinished conversations, abandoned profiles, missing contexts, and memories that never fully die. We scroll through a landscape of the present that is always slightly out of sync with itself—a digital world haunted
On wisdom, memory, and the illusion of intelligence If you could sit across the fire from your ancestors—those who navigated the world through ritual, intuition, dream, and direct relationship with the living earth—and tell them about artificial intelligence, what would they hear? You might say: “We have built
We are living through a crisis of perception. It isn’t just that misinformation spreads faster than truth, or that algorithms distort what we see. The deeper problem is that we no longer trust our own senses—or understand how they’ve been trained. We navigate a world of infinite
Perception & Reality
Perception in an era of overstimulation and the rediscovery of emptiness Noise has always been part of the human condition. The chatter of marketplaces, the murmur of prayers, the crackle of fire, the soundscape of a city under construction—all are forms of distraction and orientation. But in our era,
Intelligence Underground
Who gets remembered, who gets erased—and who’s rebuilding the record We tend to imagine archives as neutral spaces. Quiet rooms filled with boxes. Digital repositories. Organized shelves. A place for memory, for preservation, for fact. But archives are not passive collections of knowledge. They are acts of curation,
Intelligence Underground
Alternative frameworks with surprising value In every intellectual era, there are ideas that live in the margins. They are too speculative, too symbolic, too spiritual, too strange—or simply too inconvenient—for the dominant discourse. They’re dismissed as fringe, unserious, pseudoscientific, regressive, or naive. Often, they are ignored not
Intelligence Underground
Mental hygiene for digital age thinkers The internet is not neutral. Its infrastructures may be invisible, its design may be frictionless, but its effects are everywhere. In our attention spans. Our emotional regulation. Our beliefs about what’s real. Our inner voice. Our ability to think. We now live inside
Renaissance for the Modern Mind
A defense of skeptical thinking in a post-truth world To question consensus is no longer a sign of intellectual rigor. In today’s discourse, it often triggers suspicion. Disagree too pointedly, and you're labeled a contrarian. Ask the wrong question, and you might be accused of harboring conspiratorial
Profiles of thinkers who left—or were pushed out of—the institution. Academia was once imagined as a sanctuary for thought—a place where ideas, however controversial or complex, could be explored freely, tested rigorously, and debated in good faith. But over time, the institution became a system. And like
Navigating the tension between coincidence and meaning. A friend you haven’t spoken to in years texts you the moment you’re thinking about them. A book falls off a shelf, and it contains the exact passage you didn’t know you needed. You see the same obscure word three
Exploring beliefs as tools, not just truths. We tend to think of belief as a statement of allegiance: "I believe in X" means I hold X to be true. This is how belief is treated in religion, politics, science, and culture—as a declaration, a boundary, a fixed
Rethinking ritual not as superstition, but as structure for meaning Ritual is often misunderstood in the modern world. We associate it with religion, repetition, or rigid tradition. We think of it as superstition—a symbolic performance meant to please a deity, secure luck, or maintain a cultural script. In the
Recovering intuition, oral tradition, and pre-modern wisdom You know how to scroll, but not how to sing. You know how to optimize a calendar, but not how to read a sky. You know the language of data, but not of trees. Of brand, but not of bone. Of systems, but
A defense of mysticism as disciplined perception, not escapism There is a quiet prejudice in modern thought: that what cannot be measured must not be real. Mysticism, intuition, symbolic perception, and esoteric traditions are often dismissed as irrational—interesting perhaps, poetic even, but ultimately unserious. They are tolerated as cultural
When did we start distrusting our internal compass? Intuition has been quietly discredited. In the modern West, it is routinely framed as soft, irrational, unreliable—a relic of pre-Enlightenment thinking, a feminine indulgence, a vague "gut feeling" to be double-checked against data or dismissed entirely. We're
A psychological, philosophical, and ecological guide. Collapse is no longer a distant scenario. It is a present condition. We feel it in the heatwaves, the biodiversity loss, the algorithmic churn, the political deadlocks, the microplastics in our bloodstreams. We see it in the cracks in every institutional narrative. In the
Rethinking permanence, infrastructure, and the aesthetics of entropy Western culture has a permanence problem. We build as if things will last forever: empires, institutions, data centers, cities, identities, systems. We enshrine durability as a value, celebrate endurance as success, and design infrastructure to defy time. Cracks are failures. Decay is
The Gen X/Y/Z disillusionment and what comes next. There was a time when the future was something you could believe in. You could grow up in the shadow of it—sleek, shining, inevitable. It promised progress. Clean lines. Space travel. Artificial intelligence that would make life easier. Economies
Moving from critique to construction—without utopia We know how to critique capitalism. We know how to mock its absurdities, name its violences, track its failures, and document its extraction. From leftist theory to internet memes, from climate activism to labor movements, the tools of critique are sharp and abundant.