Cinematic Qualia: When Movies Come Alive
Collective Perception and the Lost Art of Immersive Storytelling
November 25, 2025
"What I love about movies is that they can invoke deeper forms of realism, not just perceptual with regards to form and space, not just haptic in a material sense, but also in relation to states of being, to emotions, dreams, memories. You know, the physicality of a panic attack, the nostalgia for a half-remembered past, childhood nightmares about being alone in the dark. All the more abstract interactions and subjective phenomena that define the human experience, and that can be articulated through great filmmaking." - Like Stories From Old
When Corrections Fail
Lost Luxury of Shared Reality
November 23, 2025
"Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without all three, we have no shared reality, and democracy as we know it—and all meaningful human endeavors—are dead.” – Maria Ressa
The Big Stick US Detox
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
March 26, 2025
"Summarized by Singapore’s defence minister in Munich, the US “has changed from liberator to great disruptor to a landlord seeking rent”