The Hero Who Didn't Know
On The Matrix, The Truman Show, and Dark City as films in which the protagonist's initiation consists of discovering that the world is not what it appeared to be — and what happens when that discovery reaches a mass audience
On The Matrix, The Truman Show, and Dark City as films in which the protagonist's initiation consists of discovering that the world is not what it appeared to be — and what happens when that discovery reaches a mass audience
On Boyd’s Decision Cycle, the Attention Economy’s Counter-Move, and the Technology of Intentional Awareness
On the Central Distinction of Buber's Thought and Its Immediate Consequences for the Interior Life
On the unexamined assumptions beneath scientific materialism, and why institutional science responds to their critique with censorship rather than argument
On great comedy as structured truth-delivery, the trickster as the figure who can say what the culture prohibits, why the laugh is a micro-initiation and not a response to entertainment, and what the snort, the uncomfortable chuckle, and the offended silence each reveal about the ego's relationship