There’s way more going on in your head than there is in reality.
Fundamental One Love and Gratitude The One That Makes the Rest of Them Work “You woke up. The whole biological miracle ran overnight without a single request from you. Maybe lead with that.” Love and gratitude. Go ahead. Make the face. You already know I’m right. I know. It sounds kinda gay. It sounds like... Continue Reading →
The Origin Problem How the Machine Replaced You With a Record “The system doesn’t refute the truth. It simply stops.” — on administrative personhood There is one question the machine absolutely cannot answer without exposing itself. It’s not a trap. It’s not philosophical bait. It’s the most ordinary question in the world. You could ask... Continue Reading →
I'm almost done with my next book, "The Bullshit Machine 2: Navigating the Design of What We Are" and wanted to give a preview of what's coming, so here is the Introduction. Enjoy! Introduction Something Is Running Your Life And It Isn’t You I want to ask you something before we get into any of... Continue Reading →
Chapter One The Architecture of “The Bullshit Machine” How We Build the Cage, Decorate It, and Call It Home “Belieflessness doesn’t feel like openness. It feels like falling through the floor.” I want you to meet Gary. Gary is not his real name. Gary is everyone you have ever watched slowly disappear into himself while... Continue Reading →
System Coherence We Built the Machine. But Do We Understand It? “Systems only expand to fill the space people leave empty in themselves.” Have you ever had a conversation that changed the way you see something? Not a debate. Debates have a winner and a loser and everybody knows which side they are on before... Continue Reading →
This framework argues that belief is not the root problem of modern life—belief that doesn’t decay is. Beliefs are meant to be provisional tools: they form, guide action, contact reality, and dissolve into knowing. When that cycle breaks, belief hardens into identity and regulation. It stops serving reality and starts protecting the nervous system. What... Continue Reading →
The conversation is an extended inquiry into how belief, presence, productivity, and modern environments interact to shape human development—especially masculine development. It starts from the idea that beliefs are meant to be temporary tools that decay once they’ve done their job, but in modern life they often crystallize instead, becoming identity and regulation. This crystallization... Continue Reading →
This conversation is an exploration of where human responsibility ends and where systems are genuinely meant to begin — and what happens when that boundary breaks down. It examines why modern systems feel chaotic, overreaching, and brittle, not as a conspiracy or collapse narrative, but as a reflection of people outsourcing too much of their... Continue Reading →
This conversation is an exploration of where human responsibility ends and where systems are genuinely meant to begin — and what happens when that boundary breaks down. It examines why modern systems feel chaotic, overreaching, and brittle, not as a conspiracy or collapse narrative, but as a reflection of people outsourcing too much of their... Continue Reading →
This conversation is an exploration of where human responsibility ends and where systems are genuinely meant to begin — and what happens when that boundary breaks down. It examines why modern systems feel chaotic, overreaching, and brittle, not as a conspiracy or collapse narrative, but as a reflection of people outsourcing too much of their... Continue Reading →
It's hard to get a manipulator to tell you how they're manipulating you, unless its AI doing the manipulating and I ask it to explain itself while it's doing it. In this article I get chat GPT to talk about some of its tactics and use logic and reason to explain why you should not... Continue Reading →
Presence, Truth, and the Collapse of Images There are very few things that can be said without qualification. Most statements depend on language, agreement, memory, or belief. They may be useful, accurate, or meaningful, but they are not absolute. When examined closely, they dissolve. A small set of truths does not. The most fundamental of... Continue Reading →
I used the free, unlogged-in version of ChatGPT to break down some thoughts and it nailed it, so I'm sharing it with you. I have a theory that If more people start paying attention to the truths of this world, then the nonsensical, story telling, overbearing, authority presuming, governmental fictions of this world will lessen... Continue Reading →
When people tell me that they're into a mainstream personality, I like to check in on that personality to see who people are getting their information from. In this case, I looked into Chuck Missler because my friend said that Chuck told him that God has 4 literal heads. I, as a man of sound... Continue Reading →
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