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Zugswang is a German chess term that literally translates as: compulsion to move. Zugswang refers to situations where the active player has no good move, and because it is their turn they are forced to make a move that weakens their position. I feel like fascists and other member of the far right have aContinueContinue reading “Fourth Dimensional Chess?”

The Elder Scrolls games have a concept called chim or CHIM. Chim is a state of enlightenment, where one understands that one is a mere part of the dream of the Godhead, but chooses to remain a part of the dream. The warrior poet Vivec and the god-emperor Talos both achieved chim. The concept isContinueContinue reading “We Are All Authors”

Is there such a thing as evil? No. Thank you good night. But in seriousness, evil is not a thing. Evil is a measurement. Like an inch measures length, like a dollar measures economic value, evil is a measurement. What is measures is a little more slippery: morality, virtue, social acceptability, or something else. EvilContinueContinue reading “What Evil Does”

I am almost 42 years old. And I am considering growing out a mohawk. Textbook midlife crisis yes? I have a theory about midlife crisis. We spend 20 years learning what we are told are the rules for how to live life. We do this on the promise that we will be rewarded if weContinueContinue reading “Professor Mohawk: On Midlife Crises”

I don’t sit down anymore. I collapse into chairs. I fall. Why? Because I am exhausted. Because since 2016 (I know that’s earlier that it is for most people), life has been a cascade of crises. I fractured my ribs. My dog herniated a disc in his back. We entered a national quarantine due toContinueContinue reading “I am exhausted”