We are accustomed to dangerous information. The recipe for a weapon. The password to a bank account. The blackmail file on a public figure. These are dangerous because of what they enable. Knowledge is power, and power can be abused. But there is another category of dangerous information, more subtle and more intimate. It is information […]
The Idea That Wounds: A Dissection of the Psychological Infohazard Read Post »
You have never seen the sun. You have seen the light that entered your eyes, the signals that traveled your optic nerve, the image your brain constructed in the darkness of your skull. But the sun itself—the burning sphere of hydrogen and helium ninety-three million miles away—you have never encountered it directly. You have only
The Solipsism Trap: Why You Cannot Perceive Anything Outside Yourself Read Post »
There is a silent expectation that comes with clicking on a blog: the promise of an answer. The reader, armed with a question, expects the writer to be armed with a solution. A conclusion. A truth. I am here to break that contract. THAT Elephant is not a distributor of capital-T “Truth.” To claim that
The Curator of Questions: Why This Blog Won’t Give You ‘The Truth’ Read Post »
