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Against a background of tall buildings, protesters march and hold anti-ICE/anti-occupation signs along with an upside down US flag

Recent-ish Reads, October 7, 2025

I want to start out by acknowledging the U.S. government ramping up its anti-reality authoritarian terror campaign against We, the People, especially in my home cities of Washington D.C. and Chicago. It becomes more important by the day to ground ourselves in our relational reality and to cultivate

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news and politics

Bravery in Defense of Reality

Knowing how reality works solidifies the ground on which to defend it from fascists.

With Washington Monument in the background, federalized cops and militarized vehicles are staged with the Washington Monument in the background as a middle aged Black woman protests with a c

Recent-ish Reads, August 29, 2025

Our reactionary moment is so fierce because our process-relational interdependence is so clear.

Small leggy bird parent and even leggier fuzzy chick on sandy beach with water in background

Recent-ish Reads, August 2, 2025

For your reading pleasure, and my joy that some brilliant people agree with me, a few more illustrations of basic comparative metaphysics.

Collage of diagonally tiled images of climate impacts: glacial destruction, forest fires, intensified hurricanes, flooding, heat danger, drought and famine

news and politics

The Catastrophically Stupid Metaphysics of Climate Deniers

Trump proposed scrapping EPA's authority to regulate climate pollution, based on a core map-territory mistake.

It's Really Not Hard

everyday practice

It's Really Not Hard

The two basic directions of understanding things are within any willing person's grasp, even that of a child.

Photo of a tabby cat wearing dollar sign necklace, sideways cap, and other '90s stereotypical "gangsta" costume bits

news and politics

The Metaphysics of Humiliation

Relations of domination and humiliation are at the heart of reactionary politics; metaphysics explains further.

A view of the Chicago skyline in the distance from Montrose Harbor, with trees, boats, and ducks in the foreground

Recent-ish Reads, July 12, 2025

Process-relational politics, brains, and Making Earth Healthy Again: more articles that prove this blog's point.

Colorful raspberry, pistachio, chocolate, cinnamon, etc. donuts on a wire tray

Recent-ish Reads, June 23, 2025

Capitalism, AI brain rot, and fascist weirdos... I promise these reads/listens/watches are good.

Several hundred people from Chicago's “No Kings” protest and march, attended by tens of thousands, make their way north on Wabash Street, under the "L" train

news and politics

Fascists' Crumbling Tower

All the History happening exemplifies the importance of the implicit ways we think about things in general.

3-panel comic: 1 "Let's not talk about politics anymore, I can't bear it" "same" 2 "..." 3 "THE THING IS THOUGH" "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS" @emilyscartoons

Recent-ish Reads, June 6, 2025

More fun instances of basic map-versus-terrain comparative metaphysics: birthday week edition!

Thich Nhat Hanh in a colorful procession with yellow-clad Buddhist monks at 2007 festival in Da Nang, Vietnam

religion and culture

Here It Is, Your Moment of Zen

Buddhist process-relationality, and where basic comparative metaphysics meets religion in general.

A melanistic Eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, carrying a walnut in its mouth as it pauses while crossing a walkway

Recent-ish Reads (and Listens), May 21, 2025

More process-relationality out in the wild! Mostly on one big topic this round: Power to Make the World Better I was honored to be on a conference panel a few years ago with the amazing Steph Speirs, the Solstice co-founder interviewed here on ways to redesign a better world. I

Philosophical Plumbing and Practical Examples

Philosophical Plumbing and Practical Examples

We are always already bringing metaphysical frameworks to bear on our thought and action.

Real Process Biology

Real Process Biology

Subject matter experts have got my back on process-relational metaphysics.

Recent-ish Reads, May 8, 2025

Recent-ish Reads, May 8, 2025

A few more curated gooders for you on process-relational reality.

Less Wrong = More Right (Brain Hemisphere?)

Less Wrong = More Right (Brain Hemisphere?)

Directions of seeing reality correspond to halves of our brains. Maps to the left, terrain to the right.

A young Black man in a helmet that says "RYAN" and other safety gear works on a solar installation, with a fence, cloudy sky and trees in background.

news and politics

Why Fascists Love Cancer and Hate Volunteerism

Examples show how the far-right's map-metaphysics explains choices that seem incomprehensible.

Black swallowtail butterfly with iridescent blue and yellow accents on some small pink flowers, with wings curved away from its head

Life on Earth Proves a Process-Relational World

Map-metaphysics assumptions about things' reality can distort our understandings of those things.

Small concrete dome bunker in the middle of a green field with small trees, under a blue sky with clouds.

news and politics

Rapture vs. Regeneration

Reality through the lens of Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's "Rise of End Times Fascism."