Gold Stars
Apr 18, 2023I remember the gold stars I used to get as a kid – but now I know what they really meant....
jarins
do we play the game, or does it play us?
The Impulse to Believe
Apr 17, 2023There is a critical role that religions play in human society. The Industrial Religion is no different....
Religion of the Enlightenment
Apr 14, 2023A new Industrial Religion was born in the Enlightenment. With prophets like Galileo, Newton, Mill and Locke....
Two Faces of Math
Apr 13, 2023We worship math today with all the wisdom of a rote ritual, as incantations in a language we don’t understand and steps we assiduously follow, lest the magic cease to work....
Creative Cogs
Apr 12, 2023Why do we suck the creativity out of kids?...
The Right Answer
Apr 11, 2023We are trained in school to search for the Right Answer all our lives. Where does it come from?...
The Game of Grades
Apr 10, 2023Grades are the first time we see people being separated by intellectual ability. We see them getting ranked, one above the other, in very clear, objective seeming ways....
Real Education
Apr 7, 2023How did we become soulless cogs, dancing to the beat of the corporate machine? What went wrong? The indoctrination begins early. It begins as soon as we are old enough t...
A Hidden Religion
Apr 6, 2023There is a disease in the industrialized world. A cancer that has been growing steadily for a long time. Since its creation. The disease manifests in many of the ill sym...
The Best and The Brightest
Mar 31, 2023The first person I remember calling me that out loud was my high school janitor. It was towards the end of senior year, a couple hours after school had let out, and I wa...