Final chapter. End of the road. I am refunding my own mental time to focus on another project. Not because writing down my thoughts hasn’t been a useful exercise. In fact, it has been immeasurably valuable to me. Provided some mental clarity, allowed me to think through my shifting world […]
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Chpt 49: Limiting Factor
Science fiction has always been a mirror and a map, reflecting our ambitions while charting their risks. In Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs prowls a neon-drenched future where the wealthy, known as Methuselahs, cheat death by slipping their digitized minds into new bodies, their consciousness preserved in cortical […]
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Chpt 48: It’ll Be Over By Christmas
There’s an ideological quirk that I’ve observed. A cognitive tic baked into the psyche of the progressive left. In Chpt 41: Lasting Damage I referenced a heatmap that made the rounds online. It came from a 2018 Nature article titled “Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle”, and […]
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Chpt 47: Attitude Adjuster
I value straightforwardness over performative politeness. This can, and has, got me into trouble at times. Speaking your mind openly and honestly has for a long time felt like a social taboo. For a public figure to break that social taboo and speak without the sanitised, empty, double speak normally […]
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Chpt 46: We Haven’t Met But You’re A Great Fan Of Mine
I’m no genius, and I have never made such an outrageous claim, but even I can see through the gaslighting that has been going on for the last few decades as we make our ‘transition’ to ‘green’ energy. I wrote previously in Chpt 19: Trade Surplus about the hazards of […]
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Chpt 45: Resistance is Character Forming
British anthropologist Robin Dunbar postulated that we have a cognitive limit to the number of people with which we can maintain a stable social relationship. He formed this opinion by studying the size of primate brains against the size of their average social group. From here he extrapolated upwards to […]
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Chpt 44: Heavy Messing
The Rothschilds. A name that’s been synonymous with wealth and influence for over 250 years. Often shrouded in mystery and speculation, their story is not just one of unimaginable fortune but of strategic brilliance that shaped global finance. From their humble origins in Frankfurt to becoming the financiers of nations, […]
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Chpt 43: Happy Idiot Talk
The degrowth movement is the darling of global elites. I’ve seen it pop up on Xitter, as a force for good, more times that I would like to. It’s pushed by think tanks and socialist intellectuals, not to mention, institutions like the World Economic Forum. It’s framed as the solution […]
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Chpt 42: Fine Till You Came Along
I think I would quite enjoy discovering my genealogy through one of those companies that tests your DNA. My mother’s Celtic roots are a bit of a mystery. However, I am also reminded that genetic data is frequently bought by security agencies and the desire to do that fades away. […]
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Chpt 41: Lasting Damage
Morality is a human construction influenced by power dynamics, historical context, and culture. Or, morality is an absolute standard that exist as eternal forms or ideals, independent of human opinion or experience. Two statements, two philosophical positions that shape how we might interact with the world and the people in […]
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Chpt 40: A Series Of Unlikely Explanations
Despite my intentions to write at least once a week, I’ve not written for a while. I will honestly say that disruptions in my work life got the better of me, with an uncertain future bringing me some mental perturbations. That, and I’ve found myself going down some deep rabbit […]
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Chpt 39: Cantankerous
“Congrats fool, you played yourself.” Words I say to myself frequently, as I fall into the numerous traps of my own biases. Be it confirmation bias, coverage bias, groupthink, Dunning-Kruger, or even declinism. Being immune to manipulation is almost impossible in today’s modern media saturated era. Numbers vary between studies, […]