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John Wick: The True Matrix 4

OR Why you need to be watching your movies meta-textually

Nov 12 • 

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August 2025

How to know everything (or at least make people think you do)

The Chaldean Magi and the kings of the world

Aug 5 • 

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May 2024

Howard Gossage, the repentant magician

How the ad wizards turned you into a fish

May 3, 2024 • 

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March 2024

Storming Disney Castle

Liberating our heroes and legends from the slavery of "intellectual property"

Mar 29, 2024 • 

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The metaphysics of conspiracy theories

And why whether they are true or not doesn't matter

Mar 8, 2024 • 

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February 2024

The Pollution of Pango Peach Magic pt I

What to do about propaganda-induced reality collapse

Feb 24, 2024 • 

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19,999 Valentines Too Many

How 5,000+ years of Chinese harems revealed the benefits of monogamy

Feb 15, 2024 • 

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Creating the contender in you

The point of creativity, the dissipation of consumption

Feb 4, 2024 • 

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January 2024

The way out is simple but by no means easy

Nonetheless, it is possible to actually escape the Matrix. Here's how:

Jan 28, 2024 • 

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BABYLON ALL THE WAY DOWN

The veiled empire that rules with what men think about more often than Rome

Jan 14, 2024 • 

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December 2023

The beverage that killed civilization

How tea inadvertently birthed Genghis Khan and the barbarian invasions

Dec 22, 2023 • 

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For children without being childish

Hayao Miyazaki's Boy and the Blue Heron and the difference between faery tale and fantasy

Dec 16, 2023 • 

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