Traditional Thinking

We live in an age saturated with narrative & starved of memory. Everything is recorded. Nothing is retained. Tragedy competes with novelty & always loses. Yesterday’s sacrifice is buried beneath today’s outrage, which will itself be forgotten by morning. open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

How Smokes this is the most amazing breakdown. I watched every single second for all 5 hours 11 min and 38 seconds. My attention span was apparently fine all along. James Randi, Penn Gillette and ⁦@MrTeller⁩ should be proud youtu.be/FnwcU-XDyJ4

@MarioNawfal 3 minutes reading about the communists 100 Flowers Campaign tells you everything you need to know. The leadership declared that enemies had exploited openness to undermine the revolution. What followed was entirely predictable. Death to dissenters open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

🇩🇪 German Chancellor Merz: "I want real names on the internet. I want to know who is speaking. Those who hide behind anonymity demand the greatest transparency from others." Brace yourself, censorship in action!

@MarioNawfal 3 minutes reading about the communists 100 Flowers Campaign tells you everything you need to know. The leadership declared that enemies had exploited openness to undermine the revolution. What followed was entirely predictable. Death to dissenters open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

Macron: “Free speech is complete bullshit” The mask has come off. Anyone surprised?

“Philanthropy or control? Bill Gates’ massive push into global food & land isn’t charity—it’s domination. Read the exposé: open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

In China, millions of children now grow up without parents at home as economic migration has destroyed family life. The cost of prosperity is being paid one childhood at a time. Communism requires China to continue to destroy families and children. open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

There is a peculiar arrogance in the modern age that we have outgrown religion, outgrown God, outgrown the need for worship. We have not done so. We have merely changed the objects of our worship and congratulated ourselves for the switch. open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

From Empathy to Fatigue: The Backfire of the Bias Grievance Industry #DEI open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

The Useful Idiot: Communism’s First Reach for the White House Henry Wallace stands as one of the most consequentially wrong men ever to approach the American presidency. open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

The Eastern Kentucky Social Club showed how real community survives migration. Coal camp families carried memory, kinship, & mutual aid from Lynch to Cleveland & beyond. Civil society built itself not on grants, slogans or bureaucrats, but community. open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

Power voids don’t create peace. They create power struggles. When authority fails, conflict follows. Thank you @StevenBartlett @KonstantinKisin for the fantastic conversation open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

The EU–India “mobility pact” isn’t partnership. It’s demographic outsourcing. Not cooperation. Extraction. India trains. Europe drains. This isn’t migration. It’s colonial plundering with better branding. open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

Resistance is the muse. Fear is the condition of courage. Difficulty is the foundation of virtue. Comfort builds nothing. Challenge builds everything. @mikeroweworks @SPressfield Thank you for the inspirational conversation open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

Optimization Without Conscience AI, Acceleration, and the End of Shared Reality open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

Jackie Gleason’s Worst Show Became His Best Lesson: “Honesty Is the Best Policy” open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

Forgiveness is not for the offender. It is not for institutions seeking closure. It is not for spectators who want quiet. #Forgiveness is for the injured party who refuses to be owned by the injury. open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

Loneliness is now a public health crisis. AI has jot arrived to solve it. It has instead decided to monetize it. Conversational AI simulates intimacy, exploits attachment, and profits from emotional scarcity while offering relief without reciprocity. open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

Why do societies tolerate abusive leaders as long as results keep coming And why do they only recognize cults after the damage is irreversible A deep dive on charisma, power, and constraint open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…

open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p… In 2017, @jean_twenge raised the alarm on smartphones and mental health. A decade later, the data converged — not faded. The harm was visible, the mechanisms understood, and the response was denial. This wasn’t a mystery. It was a choice. @JonHaidt

Society allowed an unconscionable experiment on childhood. The result was anxious, lonely, and withdrawn children. The experiment continues because stopping it would require us to prioritize humanity over profit. Left to Their Own Devices open.substack.com/pub/drewseay/p…