Perhaps the deepest irony is that the original meaning of intelligence was not accumulation of information. It was discernment. The ability to distinguish signal from noise. A person can carry the entirety of human knowledge in their pocket and still lose that ability.

The War on Drugs criminalized the poor. The War on Terror militarized the planet.

A nation founded on rebellion against concentrated power now spends much of its time fighting fellow citizens who possess almost none.

The future isn’t coming. It’s already here. It’s just been withheld long enough that you no longer recognize it when it arrives.

That is the Teleologico hinge: scripture survives as fragments, but fragments can still preserve architecture.

The history of eugenics and with modern medicine, such as hormone therapy for precocious puberty and transgender dysphoria.