The Underneath

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The Longhouse Meme
What are we allowed to talk about and who is allowed to talk?
 • Kale Zelden
The Culture Wars are Real
Jenn on Jenn violence at the University of Tulsa exposes the rot of an ideologically motivated culture warring.
 • Kale Zelden
On Being Literate
Auden's impossibly magnificent syllabus, Frankenstein's creature's induction through literature, and the humans we are fashioning without the story of…
 • Kale Zelden
The Dark Enchantments of Grok Imagine
The Mirror of Erised and other cloaks of invisibility
 • Kale Zelden
Boiling Frogs
The enervation of the laity and our shrugged response at the elevation of a heretic
 • Kale Zelden
The Haunting of Logres
We are haunted by the unseen, but there are times that are "thin" and the darker spirits reveal themselves, often in the cover of liberation, bent on…
 • Kale Zelden
No One Guarded the Guards
And now our students can read nothing longer or more complex than an excerpt. A rant in two parts
 • Kale Zelden
Our AI Moment, Unknown Unknowns and Unknown Knowns
I can't stop thinking about AI, the fast-coming disruptions, and our unwillingness to gain perspective in our next axial revolution
 • Kale Zelden
Manufactured Narratives
The "occasion" for Traditiones and the possible uncovering of a Public Relations stunt. Facts are stubborn things.
 • Kale Zelden
Secularity is Optionality
Being "Based" will not save you, or your children, from our options. We can't RETVRN
 • Kale Zelden
The Vibes They Are A-Changin
What Pete Seeger and Dylan can teach us about our current vibe-shift
 • Kale Zelden
The Ritual of Thomas’ Discontent
Our cultural sense-makers are "AirSpacers" who prefer frictionless no-places to gritty, sticky, icky some-places
 • Kale Zelden
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