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A normal curve with stress level on the x-axis and performance on the y-axis; the curve shows that performance level increases with stress up to a certain optimal point, after which additional stress decreases performance.

The Stress-Performance Curve for Civilization

It's past time to reevaluate the social contract. Unprecedented social ills, including record-breaking levels of mental illness and addiction, secondary to a widespread, pernicious breakdown in community have led to more people feeling adrift, empty, and angry than ever before. Is the fix about optimizing our individual interactions with social systems, or is the only possible cure systemic change?

Jul 6, 20257 min read

Jesus in a flowing white robe in the center of the dance floor at a gay club - with a young man bowed down in front of him seeking his blessing.

Jesus at the Gay Bar

He's here in the midst of it — right at the centre of the dance floor, robes hitched up to His knees to make it easy to spin...

Mar 30, 20251 min read

A young man in a t-shirt standing in the front yard of a typical suburban house, with five iron prison bars in between him and the road that the house is on.

Social Prisoner Theory

Is modern society becoming an open-air prison?

Feb 16, 20254 min read