2 days agoMember-onlyHis Dreamy Hooded HeroA midwestern daydream turns western adventure — Chapter I Yvain jerked awake and wiped the sweat from his face. He was in his bed, in his room, sunlight trickling in through the window, just like any other normal morning. And yet, his head whirled with every thought possible and a few more for good measure. He was going on…Fiction21 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyFinding Dead Poets’ South Dakota HideawayA search for a site known only from local legend — Summer 2021. Black Hills, South Dakota. I got out of work at 4 PM, five days a week. For a whole week straight after work — the first week of August, the hottest of the summer — I set out on the same one adventure. I’d change clothes in the…Short Story2 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyA History of Firsts in Ancient AstronomyWe’ve come a long way to reach James Webb — What the various scientific revolutions of the past couple hundred years have done for our knowledge of the cosmos needs no introduction. From daguerreotypes to wet and dry plate photography to spectograms to great refractors to astrographs to the Hubble and James Webb telescopes, our ability to observe and capture…Space4 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyWhat the Bronze Age Collapse Can Tell Us About TodayInterdependence, systems collapse, and the perfect storm on the horizon — 3200 years ago, the world ended. Now, many are saying it just might end again. How, then, did it happen the first time, and how might we learn from past mistakes today? The late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamian regions operated with an eerily similar economic system…History4 min read
Aug 5Member-onlyHistory Is Speeding Up and We Can’t Stop ItThe exponential rate of social change and the inevitability of a social reset — You know, while getting inundated with scores of “little miss” memes on Instagram, I realized something; it’s been several months since I’ve seen a truly viral meme trend. Really. I remember even a couple of years ago, everyone (at least in my age group) seemed to know every viral meme…Politics5 min read
Jul 31Member-onlyEulogy to Freedoma couple quick lyrics on encroaching apocalypse — funeral home as empty as the life all these formalities inspired what a waste of one so many others had for centuries admired maybe it’s alright if we fail if just a few of us try weekends in July I rot at home alone and let a rich man get…Poetry1 min read
Jul 30Member-onlyWhy We’re So Drawn To Utopian DreamsAnd why radicalism will only die when modernity does — It’s no secret that fanaticism, radicalism and utopianism are on the rise. Politicians who wouldn’t have had a half a chance in hell to hold office just a few elections cycles ago have, as we all know, seized the highest offices or come unbelievably close since 2016 or so. I…Politics4 min read
Jul 28Member-onlyWhy the Next 20 Years Will Be the Worst in American HistoryComplete socio-political collapse is by now inevitable — Yes! This will be one of those articles. But stick with me, because I’m right. It’s not really very controversial by now to say that America may be in its death throes. But beyond proclaiming apocalypse from a megaphone, and even beyond listing the statistics supporting why collapse seems the…Politics4 min read
Jul 18Member-onlyThe “Dragon Houses” of Ancient GreeceWhat these mystery monuments reveal about the ancient world — And so it seems another archaeological site (this time, technically, twenty of them) hints at the same thing countless other sites have hinted at: that the stars played a primary role in the lives of ancient people the world over. Allow me to introduce you to the dragon houses of…History4 min read
Jul 14Member-onlyLeave Modern Mountain Hermits AloneA lesson in respecting those sane enough to leave society — A local news story recently got very popular in China despite not really being news at all. Said story essentially went as such: a group of hikers in the mountains of Sichuan Province came across a secluded cave, and in the cave was a singular middle-aged man. He had a…Mental Health3 min read
