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 pleasure and stripped of depth feels more like a commentary on the present than a warning about the future. If Orwell’s 1984 is…
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The Mercy That Defies Nature
There is a curious hum in the air these days, a kind of tremor beneath the pavement, as if even the roots of the trees are uncertain whether to keep growing upward or to retract, embarrassed, back into the soil. I have watched, with no small amount of bemusement, how…
Leadership is Inspiration, Not Declaration
Leadership is neither an imposition nor an entreaty; it is the silent force that compels without coercion. To lead is not to issue orders, nor is it to demand obedience, for obedience given out of fear or obligation is a fragile thing, dissolving the moment oversight is removed. True leadership…
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 synonym for conquest. It is not. A man does not survive because he beats the rest of the world to the apple tree,…
“Get Together: How to Build a Community With Your People” by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto
There’s no shortage of books about “building community,” but most of them either drown in corporate jargon or get lost in abstract ideals. Get Together does neither. Instead, it offers something rare: a clear, practical, and genuinely useful guide to bringing people together in a way that actually works. Bailey…
The Shape You Make While You’re Still Moving
They always talk about the thing. The painting. The book. The damn invention that whirs or chirps or tells you when your toast is done. People want to see the thing, hold it, sell it if they can. They want the object, not the bleeding it took to get there….
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 and logistical necessity. The allocation of aid, services, and funding must be carried out in a way that maximizes impact while adhering to…
“1984” by George Orwell: A Book or A Prophecy?
Revisiting 1984 today feels less like reading a novel and more like stumbling upon an old prophecy that’s somehow still unfolding. George Orwell’s bleak vision of a world where truth is whatever the powerful say it is has never gone out of print, and for good reason. The book doesn’t…
“Stupidocracy”
In the year 2030, society had become a dim reflection of its former self, not through war or plague, but through a slow, relentless erosion of critical thought. The world was governed not by intelligence or wisdom, but by the path of least resistance—by those who found it easier to…
Feeding the Landfill: How Globalized Food Systems Are Starving Us
Walk into any grocery store in America and you’ll see abundance. Aisles stacked high with everything from imported cheeses to out-of-season berries flown in from the other side of the world. Every imaginable cut of meat, vacuum-sealed and trimmed to perfection. The shelves are stocked, the freezers hum with excess,…