CognoVortex

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…

Our minds are circumscribed by our immediate reality but we stop at the thought of it. ~ A Human Strategy The mind often behaves like…

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….

“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…

“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 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, stripped to its barest implication: survival is adaptation, not grandeur. The mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex, apex predator, succumbed to external forces beyond its control—cosmic,…

The body’s pains, like its pleasures, often occupy a less conspicuous role than they deserve—as ghostly premises behind our choices, intentions, and delays. Think of…

To the local, the known neighborhood glows in intricate shades, layers of personal details and familiar intricacies. Beyond it, the unfamiliar places—the lives, cultures, and…

“I owe everything to what everything now deprives me of.” —Paul Valéry In the strange calculus of self-formation, one might say that what a person…