Power dresses itself in tailored certainty, but it runs on the same brittle circuits as the rest of us. The billionaires, the opportunists, the half-literate fist-pumpers who mistake grievance for strategy — they’re just another jittery species dancing under a star that occasionally throws a Carrington-class mood swing. One electromagnetic hiccup, and every boast, every […]
A stroke is the abrupt loss of blood flow to brain tissue, either because a vessel is blocked or because it ruptures. The former is ischaemic, the latter haemorrhagic, and both are catastrophic in different ways. One starves neurons, the other floods the surrounding tissue under pressure. Either path leaves a sudden absence where function […]
The world is hard enough as it stands. We all carry burdens, and most of us will eventually stumble under the weight of physical decline, mental strain, or spiritual confusion. That is the shared condition—problems are not optional. Yet there is a difference between carrying those burdens and becoming a burden; between being flawed and […]
Mental health issues are often asserted as neurochemical or physiological malfunction, located in the individual. Yet this framing conceals how distress emerges from larger social systems, which depend upon gradients of exclusion and disaffection to function. Just as unemployment is not an error but a structural feature of employment markets, sorrow and psychic fracture are […]
He walked with his head tipped back, eyes pressed into the wide blue, clouds dragging their shadows across him like indifferent hands. The paddocks on either side were brittle with grass, and the orchard ahead leaned heavy with fruit. Apples, not just apples, he thought—each one a record of chance, a refusal to collapse. He […]
Statistically, stroke is among the most disabling medical events. About one-third of survivors regain independence, another third live with permanent disability, and roughly one in four will experience another stroke within five years. The danger is sharpest in the first year, but risk never disappears. Rehabilitation outcomes depend on severity, treatment speed, therapy, and other […]
No light, no heavenly choir and certainly no sense of omnipresent Divine love but a few months ago I came pretty close to dying. Not close enough to death to experience anything on or from the “other side” but it was quite frightening. If nothing else, nearly dying has reinforced to me how precious this […]
Ever noticed that the more connected we all are, the more isolated we become? The more we are compelled to anchor our identities, experience and memory upon an external world, the lonelier and less certain this inner self becomes? Having once passed over the event horizon of self-accelerating sociotechnical metamorphosis we are each and all […]
It’s Monday morning and I just can’t escape the feeling of being chained to a wheel of ever-accelerating meaninglessness. The reciprocal obligations, the games, the roles, the participatory self-surveillance of endlessly hyper-inflating complexity and confusion that invents its own purposes, meanings and necessity as it rumbles blindly along. I am unsure of what it all […]
Finding myself waist-deep in a complex University degree at the moment and it is hard to get past constantly feeling inadequate and stupid. Ticking the boxes and walking backwards juggling flaming chainsaws through the cheese grater of institutional expectations while also working to support myself, I am utterly uncomfortable and quite disconsolate about my ability […]
It’s a little unorthodox but I suspect we deeply misunderstand the nature of living systems, long before we ever aspire to protect them from the ravages of pollution and environmental degradation. The genetically regulated phylogeny of an organism, a species and a behavioural niche are each and all inverse encodings of the environmental context they […]
I’m sitting on a small bench by the sea. Dolphins peacefully fishing near the rocks below. A gentle cadence of waves addressing the shoreline filters up through the trees to a small bench. People walking their dogs. Women talking and laughing. A cool winter breeze and the hum of a small plane passing overhead. A […]
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