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. […]
Nick Lowe wrote “(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” in 1974, but it was Elvis Costello’s 1979 version that gave it its permanent voltage. Costello took a gentle lament and drove it harder, tighter, with that clipped, anxious delivery that felt like someone shouting into a cultural headwind. By the time it appeared […]
Peace is not something to be found; it is something that stops hiding when you stop searching. The world teaches us to chase — love, success, meaning — as though fulfilment were a horizon one could reach by running faster. Yet the quiet truth is that nothing is missing. Beneath the constant reconstruction of identity, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dating apps don’t sell love. They sell the chase. Their business model only works if most people fail to find lasting relationships. A happy couple deletes the app and disappears from the revenue stream. That means personal, social, even biological success—stable intimacy, family, belonging—represents commercial failure. So the platforms are designed to keep you searching. […]
We’ve normalized dissatisfaction. Not by accident—by design. The architecture of digital dating apps isn’t built to resolve loneliness; it’s built to circulate it. What’s being optimized isn’t human connection but engagement metrics. Every swipe, match, ghost, or dopamine ping feeds a system that grows stronger the more its users stay unfulfilled. At scale, systems don’t […]
Love is less about filling a void and more about embracing the absence—the mystery that compels our curiosity and draws us closer. When we meet someone and resonate, it’s as if we acknowledge and dance around this emptiness together, creating meaning through shared experiences. Our mutual incompleteness is not a flaw but a space where […]
A theory describes itself and its own history as much as it ever comprehensively communicates or unproblematically renders its object, it sets out to prove that an absence of its opposite is the presence (and truth) of itself. A cunning gambit as the basis for confirmatory self-validation but grounded in this way in an abject […]
Money is not the solution. It is the source of most of our problems. The worst thing about this strangely powerful abstraction of value and possession is that it seems as though inequitable outcomes are not only probable, they are positively mandatory in this complex system of systems that our world represents. For anything to […]
All philosophy is futile; all language, deception and were it not that we find ourselves lashed to the mast of this listless human endeavour in knowledge and technology, we should hardly know or be anything much at all. Philosophy seeks to explain with words that which must remain constitutively inexplicable. There falling inevitably backwards upon, […]
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