Short Essays Collection # 6
“When the dream becomes material rather than moral, it inevitably becomes empty.” Create Who You Are Many philosophers read The Great Gatsby as an existential novel because…
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Short Essays Collection # 5
Enlightenment One of my favorite quotes on the subject of enlightenment comes from the movie The Razor’s Edge (Bill Murray): “It’s easy to be a holy man on a…
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Upstream or Irrelevant
We all know that things are changing in the American economy. It doesn’t show up in a single headline. But once you see the pattern, you can’t…
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The Value That Stays Home
There’s a useful way to look at the world, though it’s not the way we’re usually taught. We imagine nations as independent actors, each standing on its…
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Living in Negotiated Space
As larger, top-down frameworks weaken or become less relevant, people naturally turn to the local — to communities where they have direct relationships and real influence. It…
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The Architecture of the Cage: How Belonging Became a Transaction
This is a compilation of four essays with similar threads. They’ve been woven together into a single narrative that is both interesting and possibly concerning. Definitely worth…
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How to Really Change the World
I’ve been having a conversation on Substack about social movements and how change actually happens. And I realized that what I’ve been doing instinctively has a solid foundation in…
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Our Future Domain
Small players don’t win by trying to out-scale the giants. That game’s already decided. The advantage, for the 99%, is shifting upstream — earlier in the chain,…
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How We Lost the Nation-State
I’m not sure how far back it goes. Certainly the Vatican was one of the early players in exerting control over rulers of nations. And then came…
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From “Chad” to “Slop”; How Society Has Evolved
Each year, the American Dialect Society chooses one word to represent the Zeitgeist of that year. If you line the words up and look at them, they…