Because they were educated on the West Coast, my children were taught next to nothing about the original colonies beyond the reductionist claim that the Pilgrims were “colonizers,” a word now used less as description than as accusation.[1] They learned to dismiss the charming saccharine gloss of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving with knowing irony, andContinue reading “Thanksgiving as Strategy”
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The Golden Path and the Silicon Limit: How I Learned to Love AI
Frank Herbert’s God Emperor of Dune is not a prophecy about technology but a meditation on necessity. Leto II Atreides sacrifices his humanity to become the immortal worm who rules humankind for 3,500 years. He is a tyrant by his own design and a self-martyr in service of pedagogy. He becomes the embodiment of controlContinue reading “The Golden Path and the Silicon Limit: How I Learned to Love AI”
No Kings
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. But virtue must be vigilant lest it become tyranny. -John Adams, Discourses on Davila This Saturday (10/18/25), Portland filled with 40,000 protesters. The “No Kings March” is meant to remind those in power that sovereignty belongs toContinue reading “No Kings”
Protective Arts 