If none of us can hope to even read a percent of all the books on earth, what does it mean to be educated? Mr. Zaruba and I discussed education, and as always the discussion was a treat. We noted how mediums teach, which is to say that McLuhan was…

We can change our world(view) by changing how we power it. There are books which make me realize I wasn’t educated until I encountered them, a realization which is both horrifying and exhilarating, for what else might be out there that “I don’t know I don’t know?” Chad A. Haag’s…

On the Unavoidability of “A /A” in Be-Coming but Trouble of “Autonomous A/A” Outside Be-Coming, and Possibility of Alterological Being It is no secret that I am critical of the ontology and epistemology of “A = A,” which aligns me with thinkers like Hegel and Alfred Korzybski, but I want…

A reason why is love hard and the shock that we are hidden. Relationships are hard, and yet many of us eagerly seek them. No one plans to get a divorce, yet many people do. Are we idiots? No, we’re just trapped in a reality which entails a nature that…

Considering David Foster Wallace, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Lacan, Bringing It Forth, and the Arch of O.G. Rose Ryusuke Hamaguchi has directed the greatest representation of Lacanian thought in art I personally have ever seen, and I hope to have explained and captured why in my audio review of his masterpiece, “Drive…

The Many Freedoms, How Every Value Needs Every Other Value, the Mental Processes of WCC, and the Practices of CCI Ethan Nelson is the host and writer behind Becoming Conscious, and I immensely enjoy speaking with him. Every conversation is an engaging exploration into topics that matter, and he always…

Is vision all that separates us from the worst monsters in history? Black Mirror is genius. Every episode of Seasons 1, 2, and 3 deserve a paper — “Nosedive,” “Shut Up and Dance” — but here I will focus on “Men Against Fire” (spoilers ahead). The episode focuses on Stripe…

Looking for Help to Grasp New Ontoepistemologies and Metaphysics Much of O.G. Rose suggests a “conditional” metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, all of which can seem strange, mystical, and paradoxical. These are fair points of contention, but I think what is proposed in Rose is a lot more tangible and practicable…

We start by replacing “love” with “made.” Plato asks, “Is it good because the gods love it, or do the gods love it because it is good?” If God says things are good because they are good, this suggests “goodness” is greater than God and something God must acknowledge. …