Backpack Dreams and the Weight of the World
I have a fantasy, man, and it’s not the kind you find stitched into the neon glitz of billboards or rattling the brass-balled dreams of Wall Street…
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Work That Cannot Be Bought: The Soulful Necessity of Community Service
To serve is to place oneself in relation to another not through force, not through exchange, but through attention. This is the foundation of any authentic human…
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“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
Some books lose their edge over time. Brave New World isn’t one of them. Nearly a century after its publication, Huxley’s vision of a world numbed by…
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Survival and Solidarity
I have lived long enough among squirrels and senators, mice and merchants, to suspect that the word “survival” has become tragically misused, as though it were a…
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How to Ethically Triage Needs In Community Service Settings
Given that we exist in a world where resources are finite, yet human need is seemingly infinite, the challenge of triaging community needs becomes both a moral…
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The New Dharma Bums: Time, Mind, and the Last American Rebellion
So there they were again—ghosts of Neal and Allen and Jack—beat-eyed and barefoot in the halls of a digital inferno, walking soft along the edge of a…
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Mass Society – How Will it Impact Humanity?
For most of human history, society has been an intricate mosaic of distinct communities—villages, towns, religious congregations, and localized cultures—that functioned as semi-autonomous entities. Each possessed its…
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What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
There is a question we ask almost every child. We pose it lightly, with a smile, often in moments of calm or celebration, as if inviting them…
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Mammon in the Modern Age: Who (or What) Do We Really Serve?
In today’s world, Mammon – once the symbol of wealth and material obsession – has taken on new and less obvious forms. It’s no longer just about…
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The Addiction to Consumption: What Are We Really Trying to Buy?
Walk into any shopping mall, fast-food restaurant, or social media platform, and you’ll see the same expression on people’s faces—a vacant, almost trance-like engagement with whatever they’re…