What is Real Merit?
My work is founded on the premise that the current system doesn’t reward merit; it rewards capital. And the two are not the same thing. A person…
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Short Essays Collection # 11
We Must All “Unself” Iris Murdoch coined the term “Unselfing”. A really beautiful idea. It’s not a dramatic renunciation of “self” so much as an exacting labor…
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“Tribe” by Sebastian Junger
Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a short but surprisingly heavy book about something most modern societies have lost: a deep sense of belonging. Junger’s central idea is…
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Humanity Is Unwilling to Change
Here’s a brief conversation between two characters in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. (I bring it up at the beginning of this essay because…
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Building a Collapse Community
There’s something that I say so often, I sound like a broken record: It’s better to be proactive rather than reactive. Sounds simple enough. Most people would…