The Thread That Frayed
Wholeness in a Civilisation Built on its Opposite
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Musings on Civilisation and Collapse
Civilisational patterns, breakdown, renewal, cultural memory, risk, and the long arcs of societal survival.
What the Humanities Still Know
Silencing the Choir that Taught the Parrot to Sing
When There Is No 'We'
The Fragmentation of the Public World
The Architecture of Forgetting
A Manifesto for Learning in the Post-Industrial Era
Beyond the Imperial Monoculture
Why Humanity Needs More Than One Story
The Civilisational Wager
When the majority of humanity is no longer Western
Eighty Years Since the Quiet
I was born in 1945, into a world that had just finished screaming and had gone, for a while, quiet.
Believing the Right Villain
Propaganda in a Comforting Voice
The Conscious Universe
Exploring the Frontiers of Mind & Reality
Hunger of the Soul
Soul-sickness as Initiation to Ecority
Reading at the Speed of Thought
How the speed of a medium shapes the depth of thinking
What We Owe The Dead
A woman in Rafah wraps her daughter’s body in a curtain because there are no more shrouds.
The Planet is Still Trying to Teach Us
There are moments when a handful of simple observations can dismantle an entire civilisation’s illusion of superiority.
The Anxiety Economy
Who Profits When You Can't Put The Phone Down
The Cartographer's Dilemma
The world has shifted. The maps have not
The Weight of Witness
There’s a particular satisfaction in dispensing advice about other people’s sorrows.
The Weight a Beach Cannot Hold
On the evening of 14 December 2025, an Islamic State–inspired gunman opened fire on roughly a thousand people gathered at Bondi Beach to light candles for Hanukkah.
Reality. What a Concept!
The Power of Our Consensual Frameworks
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