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Tower Of Babel
The Tower of Babel was humanity’s first great technological project—a monolithic structure reaching upward, striving not merely to defy the heavens but to commune with the divine. It was a collective undertaking, a shared aspiration to transcend the limitations of mortality and scatterings of difference, an effort to collapse the space between humanity and God.…
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Tech Ouroboros
Step 1: “We’re Revolutionizing the World” A startup manifesto scribbled in the blood of corporate messiahs. Disrupt! Innovate! The pitch deck glows with the radioactive sheen of venture capital seraphim. The vision? A frictionless utopia, baby—or at least a tax haven. The founders wear black turtlenecks like armor. They haven’t slept since Web 1.0.…
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At War With the Archetype: The Fluidity of Roles in the Monomyth
The archetypes, those universal symbols of human experience, are not fixed stars in the firmament. They are currents in a river, shifting with the flow of time, circumstance, and choice. You may begin as the Hero, setting forth on your journey to slay the dragon, but in the act of victory—or failure—you may find yourself…
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Kardashev and Single Player Tragedy
The Kardashev scale is a simple thing: a set of rules for measuring civilization by its energy consumption. Type I: planetary power. Type II: stellar power. Type III: galactic. It’s an easy, linear way to chart progress—if you can call it progress—and it paints a pretty picture of where we’re headed. A shiny future where…
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39 Rules For Life
I thought of these 39 rules as a nod to the 39 Steps, though not the Hitchcock thriller, nor the Buchan novel, but Bunyan’s metaphorical journey. You know, the one where the protagonist wades through muck and despair to reach the celestial city—a perfect allegory for modern life, except now the muck has been monetized,…
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Hyper-Legibility
Hyper-Legibility—an advanced tactic, a looped back shot of capitalism’s serum injected into the collective vein. A psychotropic modification to the human hardware, flipped on like a circuit switch by the flashing lights and persistent hum of content creation, consumerism, and digital leisure. You’re not just consuming anymore, you’re being consumed—hollowed out, rewired to run faster…
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American Tinkering
The United States of America is often seen as a unique and influential country. Its culture, values, and way of life have spread across the world, shaping the way people think and act. However, America is also a strange and flawed model of what future worlds could look like, particularly in regards to planet-scale human…
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No Vietcong Ever Called Me Gringo
Joe, it’s the same bloody circus, isn’t it? Only the headliners change, while the carnies keep spinning the same deadly routines. Once upon a time, it was choppers slicing the humid air over rice paddies, napalm signatures scrawled across the jungle like obscene graffiti. Now it’s sleek drones circling high above the desert, quiet as…
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Amerikanische
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It Can’t Never Happen Here