Much of the deepest wisdom in life arrives in deceptively simple packaging. Ancient cultures often distilled immense truths into symbols, short sayings, or small practices that contain layer upon layer of meaning. What initially appears simple often turns out to be what I think of as a Matryoshka doll of concepts; ideas nested within ideas, each entangled with larger social, cultural, and even biological systems. This is how the concept of the Sacred Triad of Being emerged for me. It is at once individual and collective, personal and political, psychological and philosophical. The triad is composed of three equilateral spheres […]
Don’t threaten me with a good time (#theory)
This paper proposes a formal framework that reliably reduces semantics and epistemology to syntax within American English and integrates mechanisms to identify and remove lexicons of known biases and associated ontological or ideological slants. Drawing from linguistics, logic, epistemology, AI ethics, and computational bias detection research, the framework is outlined with demonstrations, objections addressed, and future work clearly defined. The incorporation of bias detection and mitigation ensures the system’s neutrality and epistemic reliability.
Retrolanguage: A hidden crisis of meaning shift
This paper introduces the concept of retrolanguage, a term coined by the author, to describe the capacity of large language models (LLMs) to modify attention and latent parameters dynamically, leading to semantic shifts in word and phrase meanings over time. Such shifts threaten semantic stability, trust, and democratic discourse in American English and beyond. Drawing upon recent research in LLM ethics, semantics, psychology, sociology, and political science, this paper outlines the risks inherent in unchecked LLM-induced linguistic evolution, details why this crisis undermines communication and democracy, and proposes concrete bias removal and ethical governance measures to mitigate these threats.
Speech Bias Harms, Undermines Democracy
At first glance, the challenges autistic people face with speech and the misinformation crisis threatening American democracy may seem worlds apart. Yet, both stem from the same deep-rooted cultural bias: an insistence on speech as the only legitimate mode of communication. This bias excludes, silences, and harms those who communicate differently, but it also leaves society vulnerable to manipulation, polarization, and the breakdown of meaningful dialogue.
Recovered from the stacks – 2023
This item was located on an old drive and is being inserted into the blog for archival purposes. The Cost of Being “Too Nice”: A Personal Reckoning There’s a harsh trade-off in modern existence—a tax on autonomy charged in the currency of conformity. To get in the door, you yield a piece of your will, and in return, you’re handed the legal minimum: a salary just above drowning, benefits dictated by those who’ve never sweated at your level. Every dollar is stretched across the real cost of staying operational: food, shelter, medicine, sanity. It’s a balancing act demanded by all […]
On the nature of despair and its remedy
In the 14th century we find the first instance of a human crafting a word for the feeling of a certainty there shall be no prosperity, and/or of existing in an environment in which everyone around you expresses this sense OF you, TO you. It is interesting to me that there is no word that opposes despair, no word that can flip or turn it. It has ‘an opposite’ (hope), but theirs is a dichotomous relation. The nature of despair is, at least linguistically, binary. We speak of ‘giving hope’ but it is a sleight of mind; we give not […]
Biting the Hand That Built You: The American Hypocrisy of Immigrant Exclusion
America’s current preoccupation with attacking and deporting legally residing immigrants and naturalized citizens is a grotesque spectacle. The nation is now eating itself, driven by a supremacist and xenophobic mindset that cannot abide the truth of its own heritage. Ethical censure, not celebration, is what the United States has earned in recent years, as it enacts policies and cultivates attitudes betraying not only its founding promises but also the very mechanism of its historical rise.
Just the facts… (Review, historical)
I assert that longstanding choices have contributed if not caused our current economic instability, civil unrest, and this insistent plod towards autocratic and kleptocratic governance. My assertion draws on a combination of well-documented trends and widely discussed critiques in political science, economics, and contemporary journalism. What follows is roughly 20-30 years of thinking pushed into a six decade+ timeline and the whole thing is rife with what has, is, and seemingly will continue to be a deliberate predatory aggressiveness toward the working class that reveals the United States to be no different whatever from any other feudal, dictatorial, despotic, and/or […]
The Ontology of Us: How Xenophobia Shapes Humanity’s Self-Image & Fate
Ontology, the philosophical study of “being,” is often presented as an abstract, universal framework for understanding existence. Yet there is a hidden assumption buried in almost all ontological thought: the idea that the human way of perceiving and categorizing reality is not only the default but also the primary perspective. Our philosophical definitions and scientific models are inescapably human-centered in both form and function. We have never encountered a non-human consciousness capable of debating ontology with us. Without an “other” perspective, it becomes an unspoken truism that our own way of ordering reality is uniquely evolved, sophisticated, and, conveniently, superior. […]
Synchronicity & Validation (No thank you.)
Content warning: Personal history, likely uninteresting for anyone but me.