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Give Me Your Hand—I Promise You My Own
I want to know if it is okay.My efforts are not missing.My intentions—given weight. What I know is the best I can do.There is nothing more I would wish for than the best for you.To know exactly how to be and how to show up.To know exactly what is needed,it’s the thing I keep dreaming. But I Continue reading
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Freedom, Commodification, and the Collapse of Legitimacy
Libertarian ideology presents itself as the philosophy of freedom. At its core is a simple claim: no one is entitled to anything, and freedom consists in non-interference. Individuals are free so long as no one actively stops them. Markets, property, and voluntary exchange are framed as neutral mechanisms through which freedom expresses itself. But when Continue reading
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Beyond the Steps
I create art with my eyes. Colors catch like sunlight shimmering through thick, syrupy honey I create art with my ears, Hear the songs that penetrate deep into my bones. I watch the world from my porch. White columns. Three steps leading down. Cars that stop at the quiet intersection. Children that cross at the Continue reading
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The Ego Created by Comfort
Introduction Many Buddhists would argue that when everything goes right for a person—money, health, stability, freedom, comfort, ease—it often means they have a great deal of positive karma ripening in this lifetime. In past lives or earlier in this one, they cultivated actions that now produce favorable conditions. But the paradox is that when life Continue reading
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The Strength to Conquer Hate
To you I am erased. To you I have no face. But don’t I ever get a say? People take your tongue, and tie it to puppet strings. Pull you around in whichever ways fulfill them until they’re pleased. Make balloon animals out of the words you speak. Force feed you what you must mean. Continue reading
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A Critique of the Western Model
It is in our human nature to look for groups or identities to adhere to. While hive mentality is not a concept that is isolated to America, when combined with capitalism and gluttony, it results in a very specific set of cultural outcomes. For example, alcohol / drug culture, materialism, wastefulness, and mindless consumption habits. Continue reading
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In the Age of AI, Will All Humans Be Useless?
In today’s society, humans form hierarchies around traits that people characterize as either inferior or superior to themselves. One poignant example of this is the type of job that one has—and, logically following, their associated education “level.” There are two main categories of hierarchy: a vertical hierarchy that seeks to divide people by age, and Continue reading
Wolfy Chai 