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Identity Stack: The Mirror Layer
Author’s Note The first essay in this series explored our cultural programming—how beliefs and behaviors are installed through repetition and reward. The second traced those subroutines back to the kernel—the… Read more.
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The Mirror and the Pattern: Tools of Judgment
Author’s Note This is the third step in our exploration of clarity—not just seeing harm, not just responding to it, but judging it with precision. In The Cartographer’s Curse, I… Read more.
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The Cartographer’s Curse: Tools of Clarity
Author’s Note This entry in the Tools series is more personal than the others. It doesn’t excavate systems of power so much as document what it costs to examine them up close,… Read more.
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The Stillness Between Steps
Author’s Note: Most of what I write here points outward—at the systems, ideologies, and cultural habits that fracture us. But this piece is different. It turns inward, toward the quieter,… Read more.
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The Candle That Changed Nothing
It’s the end of a long, punishing day. You shut your laptop, eyes stinging from the glare, a headache pulsing in your temples. The world has been tugging at you… Read more.
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Slutty When She Says It : The Modern War on Female Desire
I want to acknowledge, right from the start, that I’m writing this piece from a position of supreme privilege. I’m a straight, white, married man in the United States, and… Read more.
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Bread and Circus
“Give them bread and circus, and they will never revolt.” ~Juvenal, Roman Poet This ancient Roman axiom encapsulates a sobering truth about governance and control. It’s a tactic as old… Read more.
