An Engineer’s Apology – A Metamodern Take on Becoming a Dasein Ronin

This blog seems out of left field if you were to simply look at my credentials on paper. Why does an energy engineer write about ideasthesia or anarchism or other esoteric ideas? It’s somewhat simple – they actually do relate to engineering. In fact, engineering is the common thread. It is a truism that we …

Ishmael, Progress, and Talking Animals

You may have been able to ascertain, but a driving force in some of my thought is the fiction book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. I suppose you can think of this as a book review, but I also write this as I realize now that what Quinn stopped short of proposing was a vision of …

An Anarchist’s View

Let’s first dispel some myths: Anarchy is not chaos. It is not the Purge or the Joker or whatever other construct that has been fed by the media. So what then is anarchism? Taken literally, anarchism is “an” meaning no or not and “archos” meaning leader, ruler, or taken more generally, authority. It essentially proposes …