The thoughts that shape my writing
Fragments of history, reflections on memory, and glimpses of the human thread that runs through it all.
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This journal brings together essays that explore history, thought, and the human stories beneath them. You can read by theme or browse chronologically.
History · Philosophy · Culture
Plato’s Cave, Now Streaming in 4K
After Socrates drank hemlock, Plato cleaned up the talk—philosopher, organizer, and the man who turned chaos into curriculum. If Socrates was a street busker, Plato built the concert hall.
We Are the Future-Shocked
In 1972, as I went to university for economics and social psychology, I read Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock. Its warning that accelerating technological, social and psychological change would overwhelm people and societies — “too much change in too short a time” — stayed with me.