Spirituality
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Mass Society and Pop Science
Everything that is delivered on the platforms of the mass market hides such erosion from view. Many have argued that such an opacity in global finance and large tech companies has been an essential component in the widening gap between rich and poor. Continue reading
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Late Comedians Invite us to the Human Condition
Late Comedians Invite us to the Human Condition “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh; otherwise, they’ll kill you.” (Oscar Wilde) I like making other people laugh. Sometimes it is with a question; sometimes it is with a play on words; sometimes it is in highlighting the presence of irreconcilable absurdity.… Continue reading
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Solitude, Separation, and Holiness
“To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is essential if one is to remain human. But to live amidst others, sharing nothing with them but the common noise and the general distraction, isolates a person in the worst way.” Continue reading
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Sower, Seeds, Sown
Every moment of life on earth plants something in your soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of seeds, so too, each moment brings germs of spiritual vitality that unnoticeably come to rest in the spirits of individuals. Continue reading
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Dimensions
They said what the four of us knew in our bones: together, every obstacle could be resolved. Continue reading
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Human Time Can Mean Anything
“Effective altruists, … say the threat of artificial intelligence is that it may someday become conscious…. The Right to Be Lazy suggests that machines have already been used to that end for nearly 250 years.” Yet a machine cannot enjoy its time off. Continue reading
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Work: The Technocratic Perversion of Human Life
Technocratic capitalism can either overrun humanity or it needs to be forced back into its lane. Continue reading
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The 2023 Thai Election: Agency… for Agency
The Move Forward’s political agenda of demilitarization, de-monopolization, and decentralization (3D) is thus key to an understanding of what is different in Thai politics. Continue reading
