consciousness is the collision of expositions

The OWS protests aren’t so much about evil bankers but depersonalization and the loss of control that brings. With corporate influence into government you receive faceless unaccountable decision making. Corporatization of healthcare, mortgage lending, and 19thcentury energy resources take advantage of individuals rather than aid them. The person is buried for profits. There is nothing more [...]

It feels like ten years have passed but nothing has really happened. The only progress has been via bubbles whose excitement was redacted by panic. Maybe the disruption has begun. Maybe we are fooling ourselves with our castles in the air. I wonder if are at some invisible turning point of some huge cycle. We’ve misguided [...]

This letter was originally mailed to Paul Auster in about 2000 when he was collecting stories on his NPR radio show Other True Tales. Some of these stories were made into the book True Tales of American Life (First published under the title I Thought My Father Was God, and Other True Tales from NPR’s National [...]

I think about technology all the time. I think about how much it has taken over every facet of my life in a short period of time and I now try to spend weekends offline away from screens. I think about how I am part of the first digital test generation who grew up with [...]