Culture, Evolution, Perpetual War

Ascending Descending: Masters of Delusions

Prisoners of a closed universe from which there is no escape, Escher’s monks climb an ever-upward, ever-downward staircase. No matter how many steps they take, their trance-like, persistent tread will only return them to the point where they began. As is often the case [...]

Ascending Descending: Masters of Delusions2026-02-13T14:11:31-08:00

Post Modern Oedipus: Challenging the Gods

As the gods evolved from their animistic origins, their powers simultaneously increased. This transformation, engineered by priests and story tellers, ultimately created gods who had human faces, human appetites, human behaviors, and human emotions. They were created in man’s image and likeness–not the other [...]

Post Modern Oedipus: Challenging the Gods2026-03-08T14:15:05-07:00

This Mortal Coil

A Just So Story… Mind and Body are the inventive, but odd couple of evolution. One rides high, head sometimes in the clouds. The other pushing off heroically in pursuit of newly discovered strategies that maximize fitness. Together they swam, slithered, trotted or stumbled [...]

This Mortal Coil2026-02-09T16:08:42-08:00

Panopticon: Welcome to Your Portable Prison

Santayana was wrong. History does not repeat itself because we have failed to learn from the past. History repeats itself because evolution and its phenotypic servants--culture and reason--have been structured to preserve the pugnacious,  conservative behaviors that guaranteed human survival. These inheritances are the [...]

Panopticon: Welcome to Your Portable Prison2026-02-13T14:35:07-08:00

Akhenaten or Henry VIII? Hellions or Saints?

Much like Northwest natives who believed that earth was the the spiritual repository of departed ancestors, we moderns also tread upon the ancients who have preceded us.  The patterns and beliefs of the past are never really surpassed, and new generations merely reiterate the [...]

Akhenaten or Henry VIII? Hellions or Saints?2026-03-08T15:43:20-07:00

Mythic Engine of American Culture: Epigenesis of Totemism

"Dogma is the imposing cathedral which lifts its dome above the beliefs and the cults of a highly organized religion, enclosing them and guarding them against the crude reality.  The architects of the Middle Ages believed that such a sacred edifice was consecrated only [...]

Mythic Engine of American Culture: Epigenesis of Totemism2026-02-13T14:39:38-08:00

Plato’s Counter Reformation: Attack on Reality

The successes of both Pythagoras and Plato will ironically open the way for a final skeptical assault on the immortality project itself. Though most evidence about Pythagoras’ life is fragmentary, we do know certain aspects of his philosophy from reports left by his students [...]

Plato’s Counter Reformation: Attack on Reality2026-02-13T15:24:24-08:00
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