Charity or Ego Trip? Rethinking What It Means to Do Good
There’s a particular kind of feeling that comes with realizing you’ve been wrong about something for years. Not the minor kind, like discovering that capers aren’t baby…
Health and Wellness
-
-
The Black Hole of Social Media: How We Got Sucked In and Forgot the Way Out
There is a moment, perhaps, that’s familiar to most of us now: you pick up your phone to check a message or glance at the weather, and…
-
Is There Meaning in Milk
There was a time when a man knew the name of the cow that gave him his milk. He knew the row where his tomatoes grew. He…
-
The Landfill Economy and the Death of Meaning
We live in a time of abundance, or so we’re told. Never in human history have so many goods been so widely available, so cheaply produced, and…
-
In a Future Filled with Doubt, What Does It Mean to Be Human?: a book review
Neon Future, the brainchild of entrepreneur and self-proclaimed futurist Tom Bilyeu, isn’t so much a graphic novel as it is a manifesto in comic-book form. A manifesto…
-
Saving Those Who Refuse to Swim
There comes a point when generosity begins to feel like self-harm. When the instinct to give, to lift, to offer, to patch the wounds of a society…
-
Soap Operas for EVERYONE
In the trenches of our community resource center, an odd truth has become glaringly evident: some people seem to operate as if life is a soap opera,…
-
The Echo Threshold
In the winter of 2012, when the world joked nervously about the end of the Mayan calendar, I didn’t laugh. It wasn’t fear, not exactly. It was…
-
The Weight of Possession, the Lightness of Being
In the quiet of dawn, when the world is stripped bare, a man stands alone. He owns nothing but the breath in his lungs and the thoughts…
-
On the Commerce of Human Souls
At the heart of our modern economy lies a quiet brutality, too ordinary to stir outrage and too abstract to touch the conscience. It is called labor…