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America: The Funniest Home Video
Modern culture has shifted from thick storytelling to thin content, and when thin becomes the foundation, rather than a byproduct of thick work, culture…
Dec 28, 2025
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The Seductive Snare of Pre-Fab Imagination
From backyard battlefields to AI-generated worlds, an essay on how toys & tools that promise creative freedom destroy it and dictate how we’re allowed…
Dec 19, 2025
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A Canto on Can’t, or, Why Some Futures Never Arrive
In a world that worships tech, ‘can’t’ is heresy; but it defines our limits.
Oct 5, 2025
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The Marvelous Exploits of Blame-O
A modern mythology about blame & shame
Sep 10, 2025
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"Welcome to my party, pal"
A report from the Nakatomi Plaza of your soul
Aug 15, 2025
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Does Marketing Feel Like Weakness?
Marketing is perceived less as a tool and more as a tell, a sign of weakness, struggle, or even social desperation. Could this be related to class?
Jul 28, 2025
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The Myth of Fairness in The Sandbox
This story starts from a divot on a golf course, and ends in a sandbox built on a cloud.
Jul 12, 2025
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About Paul Bunyan and Myth
Paul Bunyan was about expansion and the loud explosion of the American dream - we need new myths to wake us up to the shrinking, silent implosion of it.
Jun 29, 2025
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