(audio available for paid subscribers) Hope is the thing with feathersthat perches in the souland sings the tunes without the wordsand never stops at all. Emily Dickinson Yeah, yeah, I know; life
(audio available for paid subscribers) Stone walls do not a prison make,nor iron bars a cage. Richard Lovelace However you conceive of Maya – goddess of the palace of delusion, head nurse
“If there’s life on other planets,then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.” Voltaire Okay, so let me tell you about Voltaire. Picture this: it’s the 1700s, and there’s this guy in
“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense?” Franz Kafka Franz Kafka is one of those writers who makes you think, “Wow, this guy had a lot
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche is one of those philosophers you hear about and think, “Oh, he’s probably super boring and complicated,”
(audio available for paid subscribers) The effect is delusion,and therefore the cause must be delusion. Swami Vivekananda Fear is the oily black smoke that encircles the Earth and engulfs humanity. We’re like
(audio available for paid subscribers) Shall we play a game? Joshua/WOPR, Wargames Using the Enlightenment, Dreamstate and Jed Talks trilogies as a data set, we asked an AI chatbot a few questions.
(with audio for paid subscribers) In George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith is portrayed as the quintessential rebel, a flickering flame of discontent in a world smothered by totalitarian oppression.