A meditation on shock, belief, and the endless search for truth. The reflection moves through the traps of ritualized events and the exhaustion of external authority, toward the quiet recognition that all answers ultimately return inward. It is an invitation to see illusion for what it is, without fear or denial, and to live from what endures beneath it.
Tag: shock ritual
Shock Rituals and the Machinery of Illusion
12 September 2025 ~ 13 minute read
We live in an age where shock has become ritual, and narrative eclipses reality. Screens light up with the same story, the same images, the same grief — but beneath the spectacle lies a deeper machinery at work. To see it is unsettling; to name it is often branded insensitive. Yet it matters, because if nothing else, our task is to discern what is real from what is staged, and to remember that even illusions shape the world we walk through.