The Most Terrible Secret
The most terrible secret I have ever learned is that we are alone responsible for our own joy.
Read More The Most Terrible SecretThe most terrible secret I have ever learned is that we are alone responsible for our own joy.
Read More The Most Terrible SecretThis weekend I had the great fun of speaking with Gordon White (of Rune Soup, author of Star.Ships). We talked about politics-as-religion (they’re the same thing), identity politics’ divorce from external reality, the problems with CRT (especially its pro-capitalist foundation), the complete mess that US anarchism is, plus lots of Ursula K Le Guin and […]
Read More A conversation with Gordon Whitethe current arguments about cultural appropriation lead to an increasing framework of racial separatism
Read More A Plague of Gods: Cultural Appropriation and the Resurgent Left SacredThis dispatch was also published at From The Forests of Arduinna. Subscribe there for free to get these in your inbox. As I’ve mentioned repeatedly in these dispatches, I’ve come to a place where I find myself rejecting ideological overlays in favor of more pragmatic and embodied understandings of the world. I’ll admit I’ve had […]
Read More Returning to YourselfThe ability to hold several frameworks in one’s head and then shift through them to see how they might apply to a situation isn’t some supernatural or superhuman trait. It’s the core requisite of sanity.
Read More Witch Bottles, Hellfire, and the “True Believer”