Featured Essays

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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 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 1/12/26 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 12/18/25 Greg Laugero 12/18/25

The Cave Paintings of Tito Bustillo

Reflections on my May 2025 visit to the caves of Tito Bustillo in Spain’s Asturias region.

Greg Laugero 7/15/25 Greg Laugero 7/15/25

Bataille, Religion, Experience

What is to become of religion in our time? In this essay, I descend into Bataille’s speculations on the contingent birth of consciousness out of the ‘water in water’ of pure experience.

Greg Laugero 3/4/25 Greg Laugero 3/4/25

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 3/4/25 Greg Laugero 3/4/25

Rejuvenation

Have we lost the power of rejuvenation? For a democracy to work, time needs to be oriented toward progress and continuous renewal.

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