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.

Cultivating Purpose and Discernment 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.

New Gods for a New Time

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

Greg Laugero 2/4/26 Greg Laugero 2/4/26

Purpose and Discernment: A ChatGPT Interpretation

This interpretive essay clarifies the three-part structure of Purpose and Discernment: humans as purpose-making beings, technology as time-shaping causation, and discernment as the practice that keeps accelerating power from becoming a grab. A companion for readers navigating AI, agency, and political rupture.

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.