The Most Terrible Secret

The most terrible secret I have ever learned is that we are alone responsible for our own joy.

A conversation with Gordon White

This 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 […]

A Plague of Gods: Cultural Appropriation and the Resurgent Left Sacred

the current arguments about cultural appropriation lead to an increasing framework of racial separatism

Returning to Yourself

This 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 […]

Witch Bottles, Hellfire, and the “True Believer”

The 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.