Reflections

Colonization and the Politics of Suffering

There’s something I’ve noticed throughout the past couple years of the COVID pandemic. It’s not a researched or scholarly position, it’s an observation and an intuition. Really, it boils down to something very simple: colonized countries have a very different relationship with suffering than the colonizing countries. In case you’re new to my journey, I’ve …

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cultural shifts are similar to passing a wormhole

The Wormhole: Reflections on Deep Cultural Shifts

The body moves quickly, but the soul is slow, catching up only after time.  There is obviously more to say about cultural shifts. Today, I’m just talking about the wormhole. In astronomy, a wormhole is a theoretical structure that connects different places of the universe through a shorter “tunnel” of spacetime. Most astrophysicists agree that …

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