Redemption, like freedom, is not of self. It is from self.
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Redemption Song
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Point in fact
The world does not need to collapse this hard or this fast. There are people who benefit from disorder and others who profit by it, but none of them are outside the structure they exploit. Everyone is anchored to the same reef of dependencies, because at this scale disagreement does not create separation. Dense intercommunication […]
Australia works because it stays balanced. Its democracy is not built on simple agreement, but on the disciplined interaction between different ways of seeing the world. Labor and Liberal are not just rival teams. Together, they form the smallest political structure capable of holding a complex society together. Two sides generate debate, correction, and restraint. […]
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The Human Condition
Psychoanalysis begins with a joke that only works because it fails: the patient arrives burdened with paranoia, anxiety, and unhappiness, and the doctor replies that this is simply the human condition. (Cure denied.) The moment this is understood, the structure collapses. The consulting room becomes a mirror, not a remedy, and what it reflects is […]
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The Infinite
The infinite is an idea we return to not because it resolves questions, but because it resists resolution. We surround it with language, belief, argument, and ritual, attempting to stabilise what cannot be fixed. There are no receipts for the purchase. Any infinity exceeds its description, regardless of how carefully the conceptual scaffolding is constructed. […]
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Peace as Freedom from Self
Peace begins where the self dissolves, not as annihilation but as return. The mind’s reflex to grasp at identity falters, and what remains is the stillness that underlies all becoming. In the portrait, serenity is not performed—it emanates from absence. Light and shadow no longer compete; they coexist, sustained by the same field. The face […]
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The First Wish
If a genie appeared and offered three wishes, the first would be the only one worth making. Infinite wishes betray the premise—they hollow out the point. The trick isn’t to ask for more, it’s to ask well. So I would wish for the ability to write as though casting spells upon the world. To breathe […]
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Conscience or Career?
Conscience or career? That’s the question. Dependency makes cowards of us all. The deeper loss is self-determination—eroded when choice, compliance, and corruptible ineptitude align. That loss is very likely irredeemable. No one’s really listening anymore. That silence is part of the problem. When societies slide toward control, people fall back on reflex and dogma. Positions, […]
Authoritarian consolidation does not appear out of nowhere; it emerges as a systemic reconfiguration under stress. In the American case, its acceleration is not an anomaly but the result of institutional brittleness, economic concentration, and communicative distortion. What distinguishes the current dynamic is its self-amplifying character: once initiated, it builds on itself, hollowing democratic resilience […]
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Freedom
Freedom is a word cheapened by misuse. It is invoked as if it were the license to insult, exclude, dominate, or wall oneself off from others while insisting that such enclosure is liberation. Yet what masquerades as independence becomes dependence on the harm and isolation of others, a brittle shell that requires continual reinforcement. This […]
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Spiritual Transcendence
Spiritual transcendence cannot be reduced to correction or condescension. Those modes arise from insecurity, not from clarity. The very attempt to codify or delimit transcendence—as text, doctrine, or law—inevitably transforms into contestation and tribalism. Interpretations evolve, become weapons or scaffolds, and authority often rests less on essence than on the sediment of arguments layered across […]
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Belief Bingo: Gullibility Disco
You are being played. Not in the sense of your particular beliefs, nor in the details of what you hold to be true, but in the very act of belief itself. The machinery at work here operates on the substrate of meaning, on the automatic reflex that orients you towards conviction, significance, and sense-making. What […]
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