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Niall Ferguson cautioned that empires unravel from within when the institutions meant to sustain them weaken under the strain of their own inefficacy, eroding public trust as they cease to fulfill their intended purpose. The American empire has not yet disintegrated, but its foundations have been critically undermined. Once destabilization reaches a tipping point, the… Continue reading The Guardrails Are Gone: How Institutional Power’s Decline Will Be the Death of US All
I don't mean your clothes succumbing to centripetal forces during the spin cycle. I am referring to the mass churning of content that has reached a nauseating crescendo - everywhere and all the time. Your inbox, the local deli, department store, tvOS - stuff is just being ejaculated onto us in a streaming orgy of… Continue reading Rubbish in Rapid Rotation
Your smartphone or wearable chimes with a reminder to take a few moments to breathe. You open up your Wim Hof Method Breathing & Cold™ app—"download it; it's good stuff"—to begin brrrrrreathing in relaxation and breathing out stress. For a couple of minutes, depending on your skill level and what's going on in your life,… Continue reading To Be Still Or To Strive
And let the adults take over. I'm using an expletive and all caps because that is the volume and tenor of the dialogue today and we need to raise our voices above the shrieking vampires. Those who are tearing down posters of kidnapped Israelis and those who are calling for the flattening of Gaza have… Continue reading Both Sides Need to STFU
We are all naturally attuned to and therefore familiar with cyclicalities. Day gives way to night until the sun rises again, the moon repeatedly journeys around the earth, the tides' continuous ebb and flow, the magnetic poles, and so on. And it's not just nature - business has its cycles, fashion, wealth, empires, moods, etc.… Continue reading Stuck
https://youtu.be/z9SwZoK8iS4 I love Wout Van Aert. Van der Poel kind of got the better of him this season, but worth watching them go at it during cyclecross season. They are just so strong. Have not seen Hijack yet. Great title. I don't have Apple TV these days. For some reason, we have been watching Irish… Continue reading 50 Cents
AI Generated Image I prompted ChatGPT4 to write a blog entry in a snarky witty voice about how some people go from anus skin to ass skin almost immediately while others have more differentiation in that transition whereby the anus is followed by a different texture of skin that then transitions to ass skin. and… Continue reading A New Kind of Taint
But I don't Know What to Do. https://youtu.be/zEQNb17BSd0 It is difficult not to lament the dismal state of political and civic leadership in the world. But should we be disappointed? Those who have the courage of their convictions are, for the most part, emboldened by beliefs anchored to the shallow crust that is their worldview.… Continue reading I’d Love to Change the World
Death by a thousand cuts. I. Your stomach growls as you carry in your groceriesAnd unknowingly step in shit tracking it across your floorWhen the smell registers you look back and see your printsAnd a bag tears open evacuating its loadGlass shatters and your floor is now slickGlazed with extra virgin olive oil that prompted… Continue reading Microfractures that Kill
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