The negation of one’s own reality is the mortar of the illusion. When identity is fractured by the projections it resists, and the perceiver records…
Author: CognoVortex
The Ratio of Liberation: Navigating the Boundaries of Freedom
Freedom is not the absence of limitation, but the art of riding its curve. To embrace freedom, one must affirm the contours of the cage,…
The Frictionless Harmony of Nondualism
“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.” — Friedrich Engels Harmony is not the absence of challenge but the artful alignment with reality’s currents. To walk…
Epictetus and the Fragile Fortress of Dignity
Dignity, when armored too heavily, collapses under the weight of its own self-importance. To defend it at all costs often means amplifying the indignity it…
The Comfort of Fog: Seeing the Stage, Not the Scaffolding
Our minds are circumscribed by our immediate reality but we stop at the thought of it. ~ A Human Strategy The mind often behaves like…
The Beauty of Failure: Tragedy Thrives on Inefficiency
Consider tragedy as a grand, relentless amplification of inefficiency: an exploration of every missed mark, every moment laden with potential that falters and falls short….
Entropy’s Trampoline: The Mechanics of “Free” Life
“Opposition brings concord; out of discord comes the fairest harmony.” ~ Heraclitus In the bouncing pulse of life, we find what appears to be freedom—an…
Cogito, Ergo Dubito: The Machinery of Doubt as Thought
“Dubito, ergo cogito; cogito, ergo sum dubitator-dubitando” / “I doubt, therefore I think; I think, therefore, I am a doubter-doubting” — this modern rendering sharpens…
The Erosion of Quiet Desperation: Henry David Thoreau’s Hidden Wound
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” — Henry David Thoreau Desperation left unspoken has a special kind of dignity; it cloaks itself…
Darwin’s Theorem
Darwin’s theorem, stripped to its barest implication: survival is adaptation, not grandeur. The mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex, apex predator, succumbed to external forces beyond its control—cosmic,…