Last week’s newsletter was about the conflict between our desire to create an identity and a life for ourselves and those forces that resist the human will. In traditional mythologies, those forces may take the form of the will of the gods and fate; in modern mythologies, of the will of an economic and political elite and the invisible yet ubiquitous power systems of which even the godlike elite are merely functions. But one thing was left out of the picture: the role of
March 4, 2022
March 4, 2022
March 4, 2022
Last week’s newsletter was about the conflict between our desire to create an identity and a life for ourselves and those forces that resist the human will. In traditional mythologies, those forces may take the form of the will of the gods and fate; in modern mythologies, of the will of an economic and political elite and the invisible yet ubiquitous power systems of which even the godlike elite are merely functions. But one thing was left out of the picture: the role of