Perspectives
Perspectives organizes essays across five areas of inquiry. Each track offers disciplined analysis and structured thinking on contemporary power, technology, institutions, philosophy, history, reflections, and reviews.
History and Politics & World Order
Examines institutions, authority, legitimacy, and the structural dynamics of governance during periods of transformation and crisis.
AI & Life
Explores how artificial intelligence, digital infrastructures, and technological systems reshape institutions, decision-making, and political authority.
Philosophy & Thought
Investigates governance under pressure – institutional breakdown, reform, adaptation, and the long-term conditions of stability.
Reflections & Reviews
Critical engagement with books, essays, events, and cultural works that shape contemporary debates on power, technology, governance, and political imagination.
All Perspective Essays
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The Desecration Problem
Author’s note: This opinion piece, which is rather philosophical than incremental in nature, is meant to be judged with the minds and hearts of those who go beyond the limits of earth and the heavens. My vain of thoughts, and nothing else are at play throughout my philosophical arguments here. The Great Fall of Humanity,
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Book I of the Republic: Why the Fight Over Justice Actually Matters
Most people who pick up Plato’s Republic expect philosophy. What they get in the first book is something closer to a bar argument. Socrates walks into a room, gets pulled into a conversation he didn’t ask for, and ends up in a war of ideas with three very different men. Plato designed Book I as
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If AI were a woman
Sounds like a delusional probe, doesn’t it? Except it is not. I asked a few friends to designate a specific female/male gender to AI. And to your surprise (not mine because I had a feeling they would pick female) they all said if we were to choose a gender, it would be female. This is