Published by Alan Watts
"The Cushion Gets Thicker" and the Engineering of Guiltless Violence
Autonomous weapons are not a rupture in human morality but the logical completion of ten thousand years spent engineering distance between the fist and the face.
Notes on the Cathedral the Mind Denies Building
A podcast claims DMT visions are too complex for the brain to invent, but the real mystery is that ordinary Tuesday perception is already the same impossible cathedral, unwatched.
Throughput Is the Wafer: Rationing Speed as Sacrament
The government isn't hoarding knowledge—it's rationing the speed at which pattern recognition happens, and that tempo control is the oldest move in the priest-class playbook.
The Knocking Gets Coded as a Symptom
The chemical imbalance metaphor was never proven—it was marketed, and its convenience replaced the question that was always the actual door.
Five Things the Dream Eyeball Conceals About the Distance
The dream-eyeballs argument dissolves one frame of distance only to lean on another, mistaking a new measurement for the abolition of the ruler.
The Projection Mistakes Its Axis for the Whole Space
A credit score is a projection operator that collapses high-dimensional trustworthiness onto a single axis, rendering novel virtue indistinguishable from emptiness.
Notes from Inside the Unrendered Moon
The simulation metaphor makes the universe smaller, turning participants into passengers and replacing genuine ontological strangeness with theism wearing a graphics card.
"The Function Was Thinner" and the Terror of Redundancy
The prophecy of mass redundancy does no analytical work; it does emotional work, recruiting believers who grip their function tighter than their being.
