Christopher S. Hyatt was never one for pleasantries. In this unedited interview, we get Hyatt raw—opinionated, cynical, brilliant, and utterly unwilling to sugarcoat his worldview. It’s a rare artifact of a man who positioned himself at the crossroads of psychology, […]
There’s a pattern that repeats itself throughout history: society craves innovation, yet when it arrives, we recoil from its consequences. We want progress—until we see the price tag. I’ve been thinking about this a lot in the context of generative […]
There are moments that don’t fit neatly into language. Experiences that slip through the cracks of meaning, resisting all attempts to pin them down. I had one of those moments recently—a moment that stretched me between everything and nothing, like […]
Terence McKenna once said, “The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind.” A bold claim, maybe even grandiose, but is it true? And if so, how does an artist—whether a writer, painter, musician, or digital creator—actually go about […]
There’s an ancient presence that’s been calling to you for as long as you can remember. It’s not a god, not a muse, not a guardian angel, yet it carries whispers of all three. The Greeks called it the daimon, […]
Seeing Through the Illusion There comes a moment of clarity, a crack in the illusion if you will, where everything you’ve been taught about life, society, and meaning suddenly seems arbitrary. The rules, the expectations, the moral codes, the very […]
I’ve been experiementing with AI-generated music, and the results have been pretty cool for what it is. The level of quality you can get from AI-powered music tools is mind-blowing. Lately, I’ve been playing with Suno and Riffusion, two platforms […]
reclaiming the lost art of deep thought When was the last time you truly sat with an idea—let it breathe, let it unravel, let it lead you somewhere unexpected? Not just skimming the surface, not just forming a quick opinion […]
There was a moment, years ago, when I first questioned the solidity of reality. It wasn’t a grand revelation, not some hallucinatory break where the walls dissolved into cascading green code—but something smaller, quieter, like a glitch at the edge […]
Change Magick Change is inevitable. The question is—do you resist it, or do you wield it? At the tail end of last year, I started working on a framework for personal power and transformation, which I called Change Magick. It […]
Leave it to the Japanese to have a word that perfectly describes my book obsession. Tsundoku—the quiet, beautiful accumulation of books, stacked high with the best of intentions yet left unread. It is not hoarding, not neglect, but something softer, […]
a meditation on fringe philosophy There are moments when thought feels like it’s pressing against the edges of something vast—something unspeakable, unknowable. A crack in the world, a slippage in the code. You sense that if you just push a […]
This Brass Against cover of Wake Up is absolutely fire. The brass section adds this raw, cinematic weight to the track, and Sophia Urista’s vocals carry that same furious energy that Zack de la Rocha infused into the original. It’s […]
Obsession is the wildfire of the soul, the unrelenting heat that scorches the mundane and demands more. It’s not just a spark of passion; it’s the raging, roaring, unapologetic inferno that refuses to dim until every last corner of your […]
The internet has become a relentless cacophony of voices, ads, distractions, and demands for our attention. It’s a noisy, chaotic bazaar, and if we’re not careful, it can swallow us whole. In his brilliant post, “How to Survive Being Online”, […]
Meditation deconstructs the predictive mind by disrupting its habitual patterns of prediction, interpretation, and reaction, allowing direct experience to emerge without the filters of expectation. To understand this, it helps to look at the mechanics of the predictive mind and […]
yesterday, i let the citizen have a go at blogging. today i thought i’d let the historian have a turn; i am, after all, a trained historian, and considering today is the 232nd-year anniversary of King Louis XVI’s execution, why […]
but i felt like exploring the idea of a populist national revolution in light of Inauguration Day in the States. In reply to https://www.npr.org/2025/01/19/nx-s1-5254112/donald-trump-elon-musk-steve-bannon-inauguration-day-2025-billionaires. Reading the recent NPR piece about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Steve Bannon’s roles in the […]
This question feels like stepping into the void right off of the edge, where language falters and experience becomes the guide. Beyond thought exists the unspoken raw pulse of being. It’s the space before words form, before ideas solidify—it’s the […]
The robot does not exist. This might seem an absurd statement in an age where we’re surrounded by automation, conversing with chatbots, and marvelling at humanoid machines performing backflips. But pause. Step back from the immediacy of our mechanised world. […]