Nov 29, 2021Of Setting Stars and Old GrandfathersLoss is a strange thing. We want the thing possessed by a departed friend to remain true about the world. Yet despite our memory and the many sweet gifts they gave us, we somehow imagine the world will no longer carry the beauty they embodied. …Robert Bly5 min readRobert Bly5 min read
Oct 25, 2021The Primacy of Beauty — Part IIIIt’s alright for the beggar to brag that he is a King today. His royal tent is a shadow thrown by a cloud; his throne room is a sown field. In Persian poetry and North African architecture, the garden is forever celebrated. The supreme setting for the art of living…Poetry6 min readPoetry6 min read
Oct 8, 2021Prometheus, the Original MineralWe find wealth and sublimity all around us, but most importantly, within us. A Priori “In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God and the word was God.” The logos. The original intent. The primordial sense for beauty; a priori and non-contingent. Each of us possess this quality…Prometheus5 min readPrometheus5 min read
Oct 5, 2021The Geopolitics of BitcoinStates and the nation must be aggressive in intellectually and emotionally embracing upcoming drastic financial and sociological changes. As the United States is at the lowest level of forward military deployment in 90 years, with an extreme aversion to new overseas involvement among conservative voters, the US as financial clearinghouse…Bitcoin5 min readBitcoin5 min read
Sep 11, 2021Cartel MixtecaBeauty and sound money are anti-collusive. There was a joke on the Soviets: as the West invented the personal computer, the USSR reached its greatest cement production in history. China now produces more cement than the rest of the world combined. We are left with the sense that our modern…Architecture3 min readArchitecture3 min read
Aug 28, 2021Transcendent Individual, Transcendent IdealBeing encouraged in a world of self-betrayal ideology. Watching Obama’s inauguration was transformative. Bolivarian Marxists weeping in the streets for what they believed they would receive in “si se puede” handouts. It was Peak America. Or the at least peak in my belief that the United States was a force…Philosophy6 min readPhilosophy6 min read
Aug 17, 2021Exit10 Years I’m the first to contest that no biography is needed for the likes of me. But perhaps I can be useful as a kind of example. For almost ten years I plastered my face to the charts. Most of my 30’s and before. I didn’t get married. ‘How…Philosophy7 min readPhilosophy7 min read
Apr 14, 2021The Last ScapegoatThe cheerful, immediate relationship of a Sunday afternoon in April, a green lawn, a bubbling river, a white-capped peak, you’d almost never know that the truth was being driven underground. The strange thing about freedom is that it anesthetizes one from the reality of its creation. All one sees is…Aesthetics4 min readAesthetics4 min read
Mar 20, 2021To Learn it by HeartInternalizing poetic structure allows us to see a similar coherent beauty in the world around us. Poetry orders the soul. The deliberate meter of language husbands something transcendent within us that makes us remember we belong. Poetry educates us about the beauty of the world. While in one hand opening…Poetry6 min readPoetry6 min read
Jan 27, 2021The Primacy of Beauty — Part IIOne Moment in Annihilation’s waste, One moment of the Well of Life to taste! The vast city, the dark train station, the narcotic trade, cement, high rise, anonymity. An ideology of loneliness pervades the modern scape. The world is more peopled today than humans who’d ever lived before 1900. Yet…Persian Poetry7 min readPersian Poetry7 min read
