Wokeism Is Not Feminine
How counterfeit empathy became social control “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” — Albert Einstein Wokeism looks like empathy. But it’s missing the one thing that makes…
The Yellow Brick Road Is Paved with Gold
Gold, yuan, and the end of dollar rule “He who owns the gold makes the rules.” — Anonymous A reader on Sunday’s post mentioned The Wizard of Oz. That single word—Oz—sent me back to an essay I wrote over two years ago called The Land of Ounces. I went back…
The Naked Emperor: Anatomy of the Fiat Empire
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part Three “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” — Matthew 18:3 In Part I, we met the Builder—not a single person but an archetype, a pattern of thinking that has shaped Western…
The Tower They Built: How Real Estate Became the World’s Biggest Bubble
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part Two “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens.” — Genesis 11:4 Every tower begins with a promise. People surrender tangible wealth—time, money, labor, health—in exchange for the promise of something greater. This essay traces one of…
Looking Back: The Checkmate We Saw Coming
From 2018 to the present “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” — Winston Churchill Sometimes it pays to go back and read things I’ve written before. It sheds new light. In my post Things Are Not as They Appear, I traced the long…
Why Is Gold Crashing During a War?
Three Forces & the 1983 Pattern That Explain It All “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” — Winston Churchill If you follow markets, you’ve probably seen the headlines: Gold down nearly 20% in two months. Bombs are falling in the Middle East. Oil is above $100 a…
They Study You: What the Builders Know About Human Nature
A Three-Part Mini-Series — Part One “They know us better than we know ourselves. That should frighten you.” — Shoshana Zuboff, Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Doesn’t it give you the creeps—that you’re being studied by the minute? Right now, somewhere yonder, a server is coalescing around your identity—your name,…
You Think This Is About Politics. It’s Not.
The Third Temple and the Hidden Pattern Behind Our Endless Wars This is the capstone to The Drama You’re In series—gathering everything that came before, adding what was missing, and bringing it all to completion. “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.”…
The Gift We No Longer Understand
Why We Struggle to Receive—and What It’s Costing Us “The I-Thou relationship can only be spoken with the whole being. The I-It relationship can never be spoken with the whole being.” — Martin Buber We no longer know what a gift is. The word still circulates—on birthdays, in advertisements, through…
The Voice We Lost: How We Learned to Silence Half Our Mind
“The woman whom thou gavest to be with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” — Genesis 3:12 The First Audit Listen to the first words spoken by a newly self-aware humanity. They are not filled with curiosity, wonder, or love. They are an audit. An accounting….