Polycules are Utilitarianism for Uglies

A polycule is a warehouse of people who could not, or would not, do the couple. Not a surplus of desire. A shortage of it, socialized. Mutually undesirable partners pooling what none of them could hold exclusive, then hanging a flag over the pile that says abundance. The sharing is mechanical. The intimacy is the…

Realpolitik in Modern Institutional Dysfunction

In the cold, calculated corridors of power where Joseph Stalin once roamed, a seemingly simple question echoed, shaping the very fabric of political and social life: “Who/Whom?” This query, though straightforward, encapsulated a worldview where the essence of governance and control boiled down to dominance—specifically, who dominates whom. It wasn’t merely rhetorical; it was the…

Neither Career Nor Good Work

We were a bunch of savages gathering random parts collected haphazardly
rather than planning to craft greatness.