Captured by our creation
Believing in an institution empowers it, making it more credible. As you turn its edicts into dictates, you further enable its authority. A reversal occurs: …
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Making the mysterious transactional
My buddy can manifest. However, he is frustrated when others resist alignment with his desires. Manifestation must be a powerful head trip. The danger is …
Attempting solidarity, despite architectural divisiveness
The authority is in the theatrics of the architecture. At the bank, hospital, DMV, receptionist, or supermarket, we are channeled and herded by flimsy partitions, …
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Contrariness upholds power through stagnation
Addendum to yesterday: The image of a leader (or a concept), standing like a statue at the center of controversy, employs a multi-sided tug-of-war. With …
Control Controls You
Control sounds appealing until it has you: you earned it, now you must submit to the drudgery of maintaining control. There is no longer a …
Truth destroys, Fiction unites
Truth tends to divide under the banner of transparency: revealing is destructive. Fictions tend to unite through simplification: power requires narratives. Our species tends to …
Strength Erasing Diversity
We are taught "absolute power corrupts," but simplify the concept into a more daily reality: strength leads to abuse. We can further simplify the concept …