Flat Caps and Fatalism

Do not be conformed to this world

Thinking about technology, society, and the good life.

being human in an age of change

Autodidactic rambling about applied metaphysics and esotericism, how worlds are made and what lives in the dark spaces between them. Dangerous for skeptics, materialists, and other philosophical buzzkills.

Exploring how our attitudes to what we can know shape the way we live.

Traditional Daoist teachings to refine energy and nourish spirit.

Welcome to the post-tribal struggle. Being 'right' is overrated anyway. It's not what you think, it's why you think it. Some posts about personal subjective wellbeing (not self-help shit).

Notes from the way, words from the woods, water from the springs

Thoughts on the contemplative life at the end of the Human Age. "Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” --St. Seraphim of Sarov.

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

A druid's essays on politics, culture, and the sacred at the end of empire.

Exploring the shared upheavals of our era, including technological and cultural change, the ideological revolution consuming the West, the rise of China, and the crisis of liberalism.

recording the journey of our collaborative circus, birthing new social forms