THE MINDLIGHT PEN
THE salon
conversation sharpened, not styled.
Modern culture performs pageantry
mistaken for truth.
Spectacle replaces clarity.
Here, it doesn’t.
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Essays are in the Library - complimentary, always.
Curated volumes and artifacts reside in
the collections.
SELECTED ESSAYS
THE THEATRE OF THE THUMB
It begins with a twitch — not of conscience, but of tendon. A minor impulse, a trained reflex, that drags the bright world of the stage into the narrow corridor of a vertical screen.
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Here, the performers are not actors but algorithms, and the audience is infinite, scrolling in both directions, endlessly auditioning for itself.
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The curtain never falls. It merely slides down to the next clip, the next hot take, the next triumphant display of curated spontaneity.
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Applause has been replaced by engagement metrics, standing ovations by subscriber counts, and the role of critic outsourced to the swarm.
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In this theatre, velocity is virtue, and attention is the only ticket worth tearing.
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What remains, then, for those who linger? Perhaps only the unmediated thought — rare, fleeting — before the thumb descends again, pulling us into the next act of a play that never asked for our names.✒️
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WE ARE NOT JAM
Somewhere along the way, aging stopped being a branding problem. We are no longer old. We are seasoned. Distinguished. Dynamically mature.
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A whole industry now exists to convince us that wrinkles are defects, slowing down is failure, and time itself requires intervention. The language grows softer while the message grows louder: preserve, optimize, correct, improve.
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Beneath the creams, supplements, procedures, and euphemisms sits a peculiar assumption—that human beings are products approaching their expiration date.
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But perhaps the problem isn't aging. Perhaps the problem is the refusal to name it. In a culture determined to rebrand every wrinkle and apologize for every passing year, one uncomfortable proposition remains: we are not jars on a shelf awaiting preservation.✒️
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