Atlas Minor • Behalf

Sumerian male worshipper, ca. 2900–2600 B.C.

Five thousand years ago we began outsourcing prayer and devotion to statues that would worship on our behalf. Human nature hasn’t really changed, and I can’t decide if this is reassuring or terrifying.

Tropic of Cancer – Children of a Lesser God

Restless Idylls | Blackest Ever Black, 2013

Each night in 2020, I wrote a short post for a series called Notes From the End of a World because I wanted to etch these days into my memory. Before the world changed completely.

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A mixture of marble and steel that looks like a collision of the past and future.

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Three years ago on a Saturday night in rural Pennsylvania, I saw a vision of the future that I cannot shake.

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January 14, 2022

There's an old Roman maxim that fear gave birth to the gods.

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