Longer-form examinations of ideas, patterns, and arguments that benefit from sustained attention.
Human nature does not advance. The struggles, passions, and flaws recorded by our ancestors remain our own, showing that while the circumstances of life evolve, the essence of human nature does not.
A structural breakdown of how modern ideological capture happens and why it works. If you wanted to engineer belief at scale, where would you begin? A mechanism level breakdown of identity capture and mass persuasion.
Modern societies no longer enforce conformity through violence, but through shame. Fear of social exile—amplified by social media—keep most people silent because dissent feels too costly.
Empathy, when applied prematurely, it dissolves the emotional tension that fuels ambition. The paradox is that the very discomfort empathy seeks to eliminate is often the raw material of creation.
Human survival shifted from individual strength to shared systems of support, but nature’s laws have not disappeared. What happens when cultural and cognitive evolution begin to shape survival more than biology itself?
