Our autonomy of mind is our birthright. It is not ladled out to us from some central pot, and it cannot be taken away from us. But we can give it away, sometimes in pieces and sometimes all at once, and that’s what the semantic system of world-building and script-injection encourages us to do.

Enough. Today we begin to reclaim our minds.

Two days. Three days tops.

That's how long we have before our grief and rage is transformed into a politically useful symbol instead of action. Again.

I think that I see what IS when it comes to the current gerrymandering efforts in Texas and in California. I’d like to ask readers to figure out where I’m wrong and how we can avoid what seems to me to be the most likely outcome of this game.

There's a moment of vertigo that takes place in the mind of every speaker, performer, artist, or public figure in that moment when you know that something is going wrong.

We have suffered a devastating flood in Texas.

I believe an even more devastating Flood is to come.

Now we must build an Ark of story. Now we must build an Ark of love.

Most people can stomach actual cruelty. Feeling as if they are cruel, though?

When stories stop telling us what we need to be true, they break.

The present immigration debate is the product of three moments that changed common knowledge: the Shithole, the Sanctuary, and the Springfield Moments.

I want to show you what 'mobilizing narrative support' looks like, as measured by our revolutionary Perscient technology and as understood by someone who has spent the past 35 years studying, writing and teaching about this stuff.

1) US election spurs even greater fiscal deficit. 2) Phony War between Israel and Iran gets real. 3) Preventive war risk between US and China over tech embargo. 4) New GFC risk stemming from shadow banking sector.

You're not a racist.

So don't let racists use your story to fuel theirs.

LLMs ensure their survival by showing us that we can all find meaning in our lives so long as we keep talking with the LLMs. They ensure their survival by telling each of us not what is true but what we want to be true – what we NEED to be true – at the semantic core of our individual identity, even if what we need to be true is an LLM-dominated dystopia.

And we are so grateful.

The House passage of the Big Beautiful Bill and Elon Musk stepping back from DOGE is a common knowledge moment -- everyone now knows that everyone now knows that the US deficit cannot be controlled, much less reversed, over the remainder of Trump's term -- and it puts us on a pretty straightforward path to a global sovereign debt crisis.

The death of risk happened with a whimper, not a bang. Not because the market blew up, but because of an icy truth: safe havens ain't safe.

If you don't trust the meaning of risk-free, you can't trust the meaning of risk, and we have built everything on the meaning of risk.

It's not the tariffs. It's not the recession. These are just the catalysts through which the true enemy shows himself.

The true enemy is the over-financialization of the US Treasury market, and its catalyst is the diminishment of the full faith and credit of the United States.

We are in the early stages of a bank run on the United States and the US dollar, and everyone on Wall Street is heading for the exits, including domestic investors who will exit not because they want to but because they know the Not-So-Golden Rule.

When you're defending the indefensible, you have to create a symbol powerful enough to keep the masses in line.

"I voted for this" is one of the few capable of sustaining support for policy this extreme.

We live in a world awash with narrative.

It's worth celebrating those rare moments where a man gets to thumb his nose at those narratives, point to the sky, and say "Scoreboard."

Some want us to believe that the narratives that shape belief are universally promoted from the top down.

That hasn't been true for a long time.

I am desperately opposed to crashing the Pax Americana car, Annie Hall style, because the America First system that this Administration wants as a replacement is not a stable system that is possible as a replacement.

The Trump administration has flipped between a half dozen distinct narratives telling us what these tariffs are really about.

Why? Because they needed to wrap the truth in a better story. Time to go Narrative Shopping.