Memory, Guilt and the Shortcut I remember a day when the building seemed to be perpetually two steps behind its own breath, and nothing was, in fact, “on fire,” yet everything was treated as if it were—as if public life had turned into a room full of overly sensitive alarms, the …
Identity Without Prison: The Balance of Personality Governing the Self
Identity Without Prison: The Balance of Personality Governing the Self
When we say “this is who I am”, are we describing traits or signing sentences?
Are we recognizing patterns or hiding behind ready-made identities?
And more importantly, are we certain that this “w…
Freedom Is Also a Choice
Freedom Is Also a Choice I was trained silence, I was laughter by demand,
a measured step taken to keep the blast at bay.
But in the mirror I saw the unedited scene:
my eyes begging for help in their own expression. I made a home out of guilt, a prison out of haste,
carrie…
Corruption: When Regulation Becomes a Product
Corruption: When Regulation Becomes a Product There is a form of corruption that requires no bribery, secrecy, or explicit illegality. It operates within the rules, speaks the language of expertise, and presents itself as protection. It is called institutional capture: the point …
Security Politics: How Fear Rhetoric Expands Power and Weakens Accountability
Security Politics: How Fear Rhetoric Expands Power and Weakens Accountability When a government begins to speak of security as if reciting a creed, the right question is not “what is happening out there?” The right question is “what are they trying to make acceptable in here?” Be…
Diplomacy Without Illusions: 7 Rules That Prevent Wars and Save Agreements
Diplomacy Without Illusions: 7 Rules That Prevent Wars and Save Agreements International politics has an elegant vice. It pretends to be about values when it is almost always about costs. Values are the music. Costs are the score. Those who learn to read the score stop getting ir…
Freedom: Inner Habit or External Condition?
Freedom: Inner Habit or External Condition?
Freedom is a small word that, once it enters real life, always demands a price. The first common mistake is to imagine that it exists only on the outside, as if it were a physical space: the absence of censorship, the right to come and…
DNA
DNA
In the heartbeat of the cosmos lies a timeless source,
God, the endless fountain, our universal force.
From stars that blink in the night’s embrace, to oceans deep and wide,
Every atom sings His name, where mysteries reside.
Yo, in the fabric of existe…
Didn’t Wanna See Me Win
Didn’t Wanna See Me Win
Didn’t wanna see me win, nah
Had me boxed in, now I bend laws
Came from the bottom with the skin flaws
Now I’m on top, watch 'em spin off
Back then, they was laughin' at the vision
Now I’m stackin’ commas like it’s ficti…
The Escape Route of Slander
The Escape Route of Slander Read this, but do not take it personally. The message has already been delivered to those it concerns, and here I share it as I do with almost everything I have written for more than fifteen years. I write to interrupt a mechanism that is becoming far t…
Helminths
Helminths It was not what they said.
It was what they repeated until it became rule.
Repetition does not cleanse. It hardens. Do you believe?
Then believe.
Believe in the tongue as if it were evidence,
in saliva as if it were thought,
in rumor as if it were biography. Y…