The Wall of Weird
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
The Wall of Weird
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
The Wall of Weird
The cultural discomfort with ambiguity, paradox, and in-between states We like things to be clear. Defined. Sorted. This is not simply a preference—it’s a cultural bias. We have been trained to fear the uncertain, distrust the undefined, and resolve the contradictory. In doing so, we have cultivated a
The Wall of Weird
Why the strange continues to haunt rational minds In an age of data, metrics, and machine logic, you might expect the strange to recede. And yet, the opposite seems to be true. Interest in astrology, tarot, magic, ancestral practices, and esoteric philosophy has quietly surged—not just in fringe subcultures,