American culture is broken, and badly. It's broken to the point where there's a civil war going on - thankfully, still at the "civil" part, mostly - and that civil war is going to break the national identity and bring…
Category: psychology
I liked watching the planes fly. They just seemed so magical, like they were suspended by wires nobody could see, even though I knew the magic was called "physics." At first I imagined them held up by the wires, then…
One of the things I've had to learn over time - and that I've learned poorly, I should add - is that everything, everything, exists. It might not exist in the sense of being real, I suppose; it might exist…
I recently offered some advice on relationships to someone, with the preface that I knew it was unasked-for and based on my own experience. I don't know how good the advice actually is, but it has the ring of value…
I made the switch to the Apple ecosystem a few years ago. It started with a MacBook - a switch I'd been publicly wanting to make for years and years, as an in-joke among my friends and a public joke…
George Bernard Shaw, a playwright from around the time of World War I, is given credit for saying, "Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." It's good advice that few…
I find that I really wish that there was a sort of Law of Karma like there is for Thermodynamics. Just imagine what the world would be like if the harm you wished upon others was visited on you at…
There’s been some discussion recently on Rush Fanatics - a Facebook group - about Ayn Rand, in part because of a reference to the “meek inheriting the earth.” The phrase comes from “The Fountainhead,” and is in the context of…
I wrote an article a few years back entitled “How I See Rush’s Albums from 10000 Feet,” basically summarizing each studio album in the context of the entire discography. That’s... pretty high level. I wanted to kinda of give myself…
I saw a reference to Donald Trump as the “Divider in Chief” recently, and the comment made me laugh. The context was that of the pandemic and response to it, and how to frame the response: the model most people…