Five Centuries of the Same War

Five Centuries of the Same War

Various, 1096 to presentI want to list some of what I have witnessed, briefly, because the list is the argument.I was not present for the First Crusade but I have spoken with scholars who documented it. I was present for the later ones, at various distances. I watched...
Why Now: The Coordinates

Why Now: The Coordinates

Present Day, April 2026People ask why I am speaking now. The question deserves a direct answer.I broke my silence because I recognized the coordinates. Not in a mystical sense: in the specific sense that I have watched, from various distances, the progression of a...
Why April 24

Why April 24

Present Day, April 2026Black Sun Rising arrives April 24. I have been asked why this song, and why before the album, and I want to answer the question directly.The album, which comes May 22, is a complete thing: twelve movements through the geometry from the...
The Geometry of Violence

The Geometry of Violence

Various, consolidatedI want to say something specific about war, because I have been in enough of them to have a basis for the observation that is not theoretical.The reasons given for wars change. The configuration of the wars does not change as much as the changing...
Paper Kingdoms

Paper Kingdoms

Various, 1720 to presentThe Mississippi Bubble of 1720 was the first time I watched a modern financial system collapse under its own invented certainty. John Law’s system was genuinely sophisticated for its time: it attempted to decouple value from gold and...