The true clean energy option
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What do you want to be made of, when the meat fails and the curtain doesn’t rise again? You will die. There’s no glitter here. No hopeful Instagram filter to soften the glare. No TED Talk punchline, no therapeutic euphemism, no legacy journal full of self-affirming platitudes. Just the bleak, elegant fact that one day […]
Because we’d rather die predictably than live differently Ah, the fabled last words of every empire on the brink, every deluded CEO polishing their golden parachute, and every middle manager rearranging deck chairs on a vessel that’s already made passionate contact with the iceberg. Back in my final corporate exile—an institution swollen with Cold War […]
A Midlife Lament in One Act, Three iPads, and Zero Chickens In 2010, I committed an act of spiritual fraud. I bought an iPad. Yes, I know. Not exactly the kind of thing you’d chisel onto a tombstone. Not unless your aim is posthumous ridicule. It’s also not a fact that gets you laid, promoted, […]
A requiem from the strange lands of uncurated living Let’s drop the pleasantries. Reality is not the Eurovision Song Contest. No glitter cannons will herald your spiritual awakening. No rousing chorus will auto-tune your despair into meaning. No backup dancers will spin in reverence of your third existential collapse. You won’t get a standing ovation […]
Inner Fortitude in the Age of hyper-sensitive outrage addicts Is All Lost? The short answer is: yes—if you’re the kind of dopamine addict who needs five likes and a comment thread before breakfast just to feel marginally real. Then yes, friend, it’s all lost. Irretrievably. Stick a fork in it. The empire is not only […]
Dispatches from the Libertarian-Minarchist Schnitzel-Making Fringe The Politics of the Statistically Extinct Subtitle: Dispatches from the Libertarian-Minarchist Schnitzel-Making Fringe Let’s exorcise the formalities right at the top: I’m Austrian. Which means that every few years, I’m expected – like a well-trained schnitzel-fed automaton – to waddle obediently into a voting booth and choose from…
Or: How We Traded Builders for Bureaucrats and Called It Progress Let’s not mince words: capitalism, in its current flavor, is about as entrepreneurial as a DMV line on Ambien. No matter how often the TED talk crowd tries to rebrand it with latte-fueled jargon, the cold truth remains—what we call “capitalism” today is not […]
How collapse became a lifestyle brand, why denial is the new national pastime, and what’s left when the lights go out. How do I feel? Not merely today — no, I mean in the grand, cosmic, thunderclap-of-history sense of “what in the seven gilded hells just happened to the last five years?” Well, thank you […]
A Gen Xer’s shot at Navigating the Ongoing Clusterfuck Surprise, surprise. The void coughed me back up. Call it a mid-life software update… that crashed halfway through install. It was just me, sparring with my personal demons. We’ve settled into a tense ceasefire—so far. Anyway, who gives a shit? Meanwhile, the world went full clown […]
In 1991 I had my second tour as a United Nations soldier in Syria and met someone who told me about his former work as a bodyguard for some members of the Saudi Royal family. I was instantly hooked. I asked him for names and a reference and sent them my application upon completing my […]
