Most of the obstacles in my life weren’t external. They were procedural. Internal. A one-person committee skilled at delay, deflection, and convincing arguments for doing nothing. This is a note from inside that room, and a reminder that the only way out is movement.
Category: Journal Entries
thoughts, ponderings, experiences and lessons learned. or, something deep and life-changing.
We often ask what life would look like if humanity awakened. The problem isn’t the question itself, but the assumption that we could recognize the answer from within our current condition. Whatever such a world might be, it would not resemble our fantasies, myths, or technologies. It would demand something far more unsettling: presence without projection.
What we call invasive, diseased, or dangerous often says more about our assumptions than the systems we’re observing. What if forests and bodies are responding intelligently to conditions we’ve misunderstood?
Wanting is not neutral. In modern life, it has been shaped into a mechanism of deferral that keeps us reaching without ever arriving. Let’s examine how that mechanism operates — and how it can be dismantled.
Empires don’t usually collapse from external attack. They rot from within — through comfort, corruption, and the arrogance of believing they are immune to consequence.