Observations on the human condition
How the Water Flows A message arrived recently in a group I’ve been part of for years — people doing serious, unglamorous work on land rights, monetary reform, the mechanics of power. Someone had shared a publication. Someone else objected, forcefully: the editor holds views I find indefensible, the paper has carried content that is … Read more
A Short Story Her father’s voice came through the wall before she reached the bottom stair. Not talking to her. Talking to the radio, or to himself, which was the same thing at this hour. Poison, he was saying. Complete and utter poison. Don’t give it the time of day. Mira pulled her sleeve over … Read more
The last article asked a simple question: who benefits from your hatred? It traced the structural mechanics of managed conflict — the pilpul of opposing narratives, the harvesting of fear, the money system that makes war its most profitable product. That is the ground level view, and it is necessary. But there is a larger … Read more
There is something almost unbearable about watching people celebrate the death of other people’s children. Yet across the world, on every side of every current conflict, that is what is happening — on screens, in comment sections, in living rooms. People who would describe themselves as decent, compassionate human beings are finding themselves flooded with … Read more