The Prophet Aldous Huxley
In this 1958 Mike Wallace interview, Huxley warns future tyranny won’t terrorize but seduce us with corporate monopolies, propaganda, and drugs. Freedom requires many small voices, not a few big ones.
Heart Breath Mind Fail
Heart Breath Mind promises data-driven zen via HRV gadgets, but the science is thin, the gear overpriced, and the score meaningless. Skip the book: just breathe.
Keep Calm and Spend Money
Silicon Valley has turned sitting still into a subscription. Every “mindfulness” app re-packages ancient breathing or celebrity-guided chatter to a $10–15 a month subscription, doles out digital badges, and harvests emails. Buddhist mantras and counting breaths in your head still beat the paywall.
Endurance and The Coronavirus
In 1914, Shackleton’s crew survived two years trapped in Antarctic ice—not one life lost. No sacrifice. No hero died so others could live. Yet in 2020, we called frontline workers heroes—then ignored them. While nurses fought COVID, we rushed to concerts. 🌀 What does survival really cost?
Brave New World
Brave New World is a masterful sci-fi satire on consumerism, stability, and happiness vs. truth, drawing pandemic parallels. Highlights Ch. 3's seamless world-building via caste system, soma, and hypnopaedia. Huxley's genius weaves themes into characters' lives, mirroring today's dilemmas.
Lockdown and the Walking Dead
In 2020, the apocalypse wasn’t zombies—it was us. While shelves emptied and masks divided, I stocked pork hocks and pondered: Who’s really the walker? A raw reflection on survival, class, and the truth behind the mask. The dead don’t threaten civilization—our choices do. 🧠💀
Dreams and the White Gold Wielder
A leper, a madwoman, and a broken world on fire. When the hero finally believes, he must die to save it. 🔥 What if accepting evil is the only way to defeat it? The White Gold Wielder isn’t just an ending—it’s a reckoning.
Modern Value - This Day All Gods Must Die
Warden Dios didn’t save humanity—he sacrificed it to save a truth too dangerous to ignore. As the Dragon falls, one man’s godlike control reveals a darker reality: the systems we serve are built on lies. Who really pays the price? Read the final reckoning. ⚡
The Long Shadow of The One Tree
A quest shrouded in shadow. 🌑 The One Tree pulls you into Linden Avery’s storm-torn psyche—haunted, healing, and dangerously blind to the world’s wonders. While giants sail with joy and Elohim hold apocalyptic power, Linden’s past chains her.
Chaos and Order
A rogue cyborg, a mother fighting to survive, and a universe on the brink. 🌌 When truth becomes a weapon, who controls the facts? Hashi Lebwohl knows—chaos is coming.
The Nature of Evil - The Wounded Land
Linden Avery, a doctor who cures all—until she meets a dying beggar who vanishes after she fails to save him. 🌪️ Then: blood magic, a leper’s curse, and a broken world where rain turns to desert overnight. Welcome to The Wounded Land. Can love survive where evil is just… survival? 🌍🔥
The Collected Works of Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke's "2001" may be a snooze-fest, but it revolutionized sci-fi cinema. His real genius? Short stories that predicted everything from social media chaos to internet porn. While AI may have gotten HAL's paranoia right, we traded Clarke's hopeful space-faring future for division and doom-scrolling.