04
Nov
Marooned on the way to school.
If you are bewitched by color, every glance out the window, every walk down the street, rewards.
3 min read
Dr Essai
Essayist, photographer, walker, ciotóg.
28
Oct
On the modern state of intellection, part two.
What dooms us to generation after generation of sad goofiness is not a lack of intelligence but a fundamental Faustian bargain: witless obedience in exchange for the emotional reassurance that comes with group identity. We'd rather belong than think.
2 min read
27
Oct
On the modern state of intellection, part one.
In accounting for such abundant dumbness, some of it banal, much of if dangerous, one is tempted to shrug and explain it all by writing off people as simply stupid. But they are not stupid.
4 min read
13
Oct
Oh, hello, nice to see you
This is The Joggled Mind, a record of the continuing adventures of Dr Essai, the World's Most Attentive
1 min read