On Neil Postman's <i>Amusing Ourselves to Death</i> (1985) — the book that correctly read Huxley, correctly applied McLuhan, correctly described the attention economy thirty years before it existed, and was received as a cranky television critique by a culture too busy watching television to notice.
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