Author’s Note: This essay is part of a seven-part work in progress examining the spiritual logic of modern civilization. When complete, the series will be revised and submitted for publication as a book. “The part of us that we call ‘I’… wishes for the most part not to be disturbed,…
THE LOST CENTER OF CIVILIZATION | PART 2 “God is love.” — 1 John 4:8 “If God [Love] is not, everything is permitted.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky The West tells itself a story: that modern science and secularism defeated the tyranny of Christendom, the civilization built under the rule of the…
THE LOST CENTER OF CIVILIZATION | PART 1 “When the center fails to hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” — W.B. Yeats The West was once bound by a shared center. It offered an understanding of what a human being is, what constitutes virtue, and where authority derives…
Lessons on chaos and emergence from the universe itself “The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.” – Arthur Eddington The Dissolving World Open a news feed, scroll a timeline, wander the comment threads, and you can watch competing realities collide in…
“Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.” — C.G. Jung, The Earth Has a Soul Last week, while picking up a book at the library, I noticed a small box marked “Free Books.” On top of the pile lay a…
Why 2025 Belongs to the Miners, Not the Machines “That which is exalted among men is abomination in the sight of God.” — Luke 16:15 You’ve seen it a thousand times: breathless coverage of AI, ChatGPT, Nvidia, Bitcoin — “the next frontier.” It’s as if the media has declared 2025…
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell Over lunch with friends recently, I was reminded how profoundly words shape our reality. They don’t just describe what we think—they guide it, limit it, sometimes even replace it. Mid-conversation, someone casually used the phrase “conspiracy theory.”…
“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero.” — Voltaire Last week, I read Scott Bessent’s paper, “The Fed’s ‘Gain of Function’ Monetary Policy,” which presents a striking critique of the Federal Reserve’s unconventional monetary strategies. Bessent argues that over the past decades—particularly following the 2008 financial crisis—the Fed has engaged…
On Tesla, Charisma, and the Illusion of Value in the Age of Narrative Capital “The more a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” — George Orwell Something curious has happened to markets over the past two and a half decades: they’ve lost their…
“They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator.” — Romans 1:25 Last week, I watched footage of Billy Graham’s historic New York Crusade at Yankee Stadium. Over 100,000 people gathered to hear him preach, a turnout that surpassed capacity….
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