The Golden Thread
The Golden Thread explores the inevitability of tragedy in a world under the sun, and the entrance of agency in the paradigm that steps beyond space and time.
The Thread of Fate
The Thread of Fate explores the forces of inevitability in the lives of men, the universality of tragedy, and the tendency to personalize the suffering that befalls us.
The Greeks gods and the Modern Titans
In the Classic world, inevitability worked through the whim of the gods. In the modern era, the perpetrator is the system, the precursors to our character and the powers that subvert our will.
Aristotle and definitions
One of Aristotle's most prevalent works spends significant time discussing the nature of a tragedy. I take a look at what he claims.
The Greeks and the dramatized examples
From Sophocles to Aeschylus, the Greeks knew how to express the horror of the inevitable.
The Modern Monolith, or how systems replaced the gods
In the ancient days, supernatural forces compelled us to the inevitable. Today, everything from our genetics to our family history to the nature of our governments rob us of agency and set us on what seems an irrecocable track.
Rulers and Authorities
The great fantasy of the modern world involves an insignificant actor wielding outsized force against the systems that oppress or exploit them, thus freeing the world from the tyranny of Fate. In reality, power feeds power, and a those who try to tear down the systems too often evoke massive destruction and collateral damage.
"Born this way"
How genetics became the new fatalism.
"Validate me, baby."
When there is no tether to truth, there is no tether to meaning.
The entropy-inertia complex
Power feeds power, and chaos - rather than disrupting the current social structures - stumbles forward, reinforcing existing success.
Bureaucracy as the faceless god of modern society
Bureaucracy was supposed to humanize scale. Instead, it all too often atomizes efficiency and fractures toward the impersonal.