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Heaven is a Place on Earth
A Meditation on Loss
20 hrs ago • 
Mike Brock
The Entropy Budget
Never trust a person who wants to live forever
Nov 18 • 
Mike Brock
On Propaganda, Power, and the Fight for Reality
My conversation with Zev Shalev
Nov 18 • 
Mike Brock
 and 
Zev Shalev
1:01:56
MAGA: You Are In A Propaganda-Induced Psychosis. Wake Up.
Please read immediately
Nov 17 • 
Mike Brock
The TikTok Doctrine
How Pete Hegseth Turned State Violence Into Social Media Entertainment
Nov 17 • 
Mike Brock
The Epistemic Boundary: A Structural Account of Consciousness, Meaning, and the Limits of Formal Systems
Or: Why Gödel, Hume, and Heisenberg Are Telling Us the Same Thing
Nov 16 • 
Mike Brock
A Short, Victorious War
This Is Exactly What the Founders Warned Us About
Nov 15 • 
Mike Brock
The Modern American Conservative Movement is Bankrupt and Anti-American
The modern American conservative movement claims the mantle of the Founders while systematically rejecting everything the Founders built.
Nov 15 • 
Mike Brock
On Comfortable Lies and the Pain of Knowing
Truth Costs More Than Most People Are Willing to Pay
Nov 14 • 
Mike Brock
There is Only One Way Out
I’ve been re-watching Tony Gilroy’s masterpiece Andor. In the first season, the story reaches one of its most evocative moral crescendos when Andy…
Nov 13 • 
Mike Brock
If Morality Had Bankruptcy Lawyers: Michael Wolff, Mike Solana, and the Age of Ethical Insolvency
The Marketization of Conscience in an Age Without Shame
Nov 12 • 
Mike Brock
They’re Not Hiding It and It's Not Irony
The Trump administration just quietly removed a memorial to Black U.S.
Nov 11 • 
Mike Brock
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