Faith is complex. It demands nothing. But asks everything. Faith in what. For what. What’s worth having faith in? It only makes sense to have faith...
Within a structure that values internal autonomy it seems absurd therefore to take the route of revolution; to demand that the other follow the same c...
Rules have a multiplicity of purposes. But at core they’re there to protect. To protect you. And to protect others from you. But the fundamental fall...
So obsessed with progress is contemporary society that it sees all plateaus as stale. As a kind of holding space to be done away with as soon as poss...
Systems try and build a sense of urgency. A speed that is often not your own. They seem in a rush. Constantly imperilled by the sense of being extingu...
You can sell time. If you break it up. Demarcate it. Make it a discrete block. Package it up. Name it. Separate it from other moments in time. But th...
Be wary of society and culture’s imposition of meaning. By consumerising spirituality, seeking and personal reflection the marketplace tries to own th...
Systems aren’t objective entities that live outside of nature. They are from it and of it. They are manifestations of nature. The incentives they run...
Do you need to take yourself away to escape the forces that seek to mould you. Or can you retreat into yourself. The interior space is so vast, and s...
If systems, religion, dogma holds that change is dangerous, then there must be good reason for it. Or not. They hold change as dangerous because it...
Absurdity is freedom. It’s the very essence of freedom. It’s the removal of all shackles of constraint. It’s deliberate stupidity. Silliness raised to...
Capitalism tells stories. It thrives on them. People tell stories. They thrive on them. The two are not the same. We tell stories to pass on our li...
The power and allure of external systems is they promise reward. But only if you follow a certain path. It’s a guarantee. A promise. A 100% money back...
Whose myths will you believe? Yours or the world outside? It’s easy to fall into the slipstream of mythologies and beliefs that aren’t your own. All...
Contemporary market driven society compresses space. It constrains space and time by demanding your attention, either to consume or to make you produc...
Society hurries you along. Your school, your work, your death. Hurried. Moved along. A queue, waiting to be served a final gesture that never really c...
There is no point to prove. Not right or wrong. No single line in the sand to which you just conform. There can’t be. That which was wrong yesterday...
Play is unproductive. It offers no value to a system based on outcomes. Play has none. It’s just play. It’s being not doing. It’s deeply aligned becau...
Ridicule serves a powerful function in modulating behaviour. As is well established, in any social environment ridicule, humiliation and shame can all...