Essays
Longer arguments, given time to settle—on medicine, ecology, and the work of paying attention.
Automation does not abolish the problem of order. It moves the question from distribution to authority, duty, and meaning—and the United States is eleven regional nations pretending to be one.
A model with a finite context and a lossy memory is Leonard Shelby with a larger vocabulary. The human in the loop decides which notes to trust.
A closed list of 520 films, a decade of evenings, and the question of whether the search for the good has eaten the life it was meant to improve.
The machine-god story is not a prediction about physics. It is a story about power—and the real struggle is over who owns the compute.
Cyberpunk taught us to see the machine. It did not teach us how to live together after seeing it. Permapunk begins where the lone hero ends—with soil, community, and a much older Chinese idea of the story as a technology of harmony.
A powerful experience creates a desire to share it. But testimony is not a prescription—and an invitation that cannot be refused has become something else.
In the Mesopotamian and biblical flood stories, the deluge is a verdict from above. In the Chinese myth of Yu the Great, it is a problem to be solved. The difference is not optimism versus pessimism, but a different theory of what a human being is for.
The Decalogue begins with a command from above; the Daoist safeguards begin with the care of a living system. The difference is less a matter of rules than of what a rule is for.
TCM was built to standardize and simplify. Classical Chinese Medicine preserves a living science of terrain, fascia, and timing—one that predates modern medicine by millennia.