Hannah Arendt told us: The lies are not meant to be believed, they are meant to make us not trust anyone about anything. And being unable to trust the information we’re given, we can’t make any choices because there are no sure safe trust-worthy choices. And that’s why so many Americans stayed home on Election …
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The Great Puzzle
I’ve been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old. I asked at that age, specifically, how to reconcile God with Science. I was raised in the household of a scientist and of a mystic, and both truths they offered made sense to me. I felt, even at …
Cleaning Up Our Mess
The world is in such a mess! It has always been messy, that’s nature, but mostly, prehistorically, when everyone lived in Jurassic Park, messes were local business: some moments of violence followed by inelegant feeding, and plenty of scavengers to clean up after. Humankind, we don’t confine our messiness to moments or a limited area, …
The Garden of Dichotomies
A friend of mine a while back, given to visions, found herself in a garden of strange shapes, all standing beside their opposites. A voice told her, Look at it from over here… And she went there, and looked, and saw that there were only unities in that garden. Our whole world is dichotomies: night/day; …
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