Featured Essays

Featured

The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.

The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?

Metanoia and the Experience of Time: Beyond Repentance and the Practice of Change in Mark’s Gospel

This brief essay revisits metanoia in Mark’s Gospel as a radical change in our experience of time. This poetic reflection reframes one of Jesus’ first words — often mistranslated as ‘repent’ — as an invitation to loosen expectation and inhabit a time of possibilities.

Greg Laugero 1/14/26 Greg Laugero 1/14/26

The Growing Gap Between Purpose and Discernment

We are not facing a collapse of meaning, but a growing gap between purpose and discernment. As computational power accelerates action faster than ethical habits can keep pace, disorientation hardens into resentment or withdrawal. This essay reframes our moment as a problem of tempo—and offers practical disciplines for learning to judge consequences in motion.

Greg Laugero 1/13/26 Greg Laugero 1/13/26

Practice: Discerning Accursed Shares

A practice of time that focuses on discerning how good intentions can create excessive energies that outrun good intentions. We live in a world where consequences spread faster than we can assess or predict. Learning to discern accursed shares as they happen will help us better navigate our growing power.

Greg Laugero 1/12/26 Greg Laugero 1/12/26

Practice: Ressentiment Check

Ressentiment is not a psychological weakness or a moral flaw. It is a signal that judgment has outrun discernment. This practice offers a way to notice when critique hardens into condemnation, suspend withdrawal that feels like moral clarity, and reopen ethical engagement in a world moving faster than inherited values can keep pace.

Greg Laugero 1/8/26 Greg Laugero 1/8/26

Practice: Repentance or Metanoia?

Metanoia is not repentance by another name. It is an orientation to time that delays meaning, resists judgment, and learns by moving forward. Drawing on Mark’s Gospel, this practice explores how patience, listening, and restraint can open a different experience of the future—one not governed by ressentiment or premature certainty.

Greg Laugero 12/14/25 Greg Laugero 12/14/25

Cultivating Purpose in a Computational World

Reflections on how ill-prepared our traditional moralities are for the world in which we live. The speed and spread of computational power is forcing a revaluation of values that we are not equipped to handle.

Greg Laugero 7/5/25 Greg Laugero 7/5/25

Ressentiment Unbound

Nietzsche treated ressentiment as a consolation for a desire for vengeance that is too weak to act. But what happens when it finds itself in power? In this essay, I explore the consequences of empowered ressentiment on the woke left.

Greg Laugero 6/5/25 Greg Laugero 6/5/25

Reading the Iliad: Mênis and the Moral Compass

Descending into Achilles passive mēnis in the Iliad leads to a better understanding of the birth of our democratic moral compass.

Greg Laugero 1/8/25 Greg Laugero 1/8/25

Reading Zarathustra: The Three Metamorphoses

The three metamorphoses Zarathustra describes in his first speech after the prologue moves us beyond any knee-jerk philosophical and religious musings of ‘being and becoming’. The vision presented here is far more sophisticated.

Greg Laugero 12/14/24 Greg Laugero 12/14/24

Reading Zarathustra: The Speeches of Zarathustra

The second installment of my series of Reading Zarathustra. This focuses on the problem of teaching, discipleship, truth telling, and companionship in ‘The Speeches of Zarathustra’ from Book I.

Greg Laugero 11/25/24 Greg Laugero 11/25/24

Reading Zarathustra: Prologue

The first in a commentary series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This post covers Zarathustra’s Prologue.

Greg Laugero 5/25/24 Greg Laugero 5/25/24

Aphorisms on the in-Between Part I

Greg Laugero 1/24/24 Greg Laugero 1/24/24

Zarathustra’s Middle Path

Greg Laugero 12/10/23 Greg Laugero 12/10/23

Civitas Peregrina and Affirmation

Greg Laugero 10/27/23 Greg Laugero 10/27/23

Mercy without Recognition

Mercy is often framed as an extension of recognition: seeing oneself in the other. This essay pushes in the opposite direction. It explores mercy as an act that does not rely on identification or reciprocity, but on attentiveness to the moment at hand. Mercy here is not sentiment but temporal discipline—an ethical response that resists calculation, delay, and justification.