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Kory James
Sep 188 min read
10 Lessons from 10 Months of Unemployment
The aim is for this to be an aid to any of you who are currently or will be going through this strange phenomenon of modern existence, but a
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Kory James
Jul 2410 min read
The Purpose of the Universe: An Argument for Objective Meaning
How can the isolated singularity of the Big Bang result in time and space, in consciousness, in everything we have today?
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Kory James
Oct 13, 20231 min read
Song Release: Kintsugi
Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing shattered pottery with golden glue, inspired me the moment I learned of it. To take a broken...
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Kory James
Jul 28, 20234 min read
Oppenheimer: Technological Determinism & The (Nuclear) Power of Symbols
The Urn of Invention: Imagine, if you will, a faded urn of substantial size containing within it marble spheres of varying color, each...
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Kory James
Jul 13, 20231 min read
Steady as a Stone Lyric Video
The lyric video for my latest single, Steady as a Stone, is now published and the song is available on all major music streaming...
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Kory James
Jan 12, 20235 min read
Amused to Death: How Entertainment Will Lead to our Downfall
“No Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As [Huxley] saw it, people will come to love their...
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Kory James
Oct 13, 20224 min read
Tolkien and the Long Defeat
Middle-Earth is a realm in perpetual decline. One beginning in benevolent magic and bliss yet succumbing over time to mundanity and shadow.
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Kory James
Sep 30, 20221 min read
The Oneironin
This week I put the final touches on my short story, The Oneironin, based on an idea that’s yanked at my imagination for over two years...
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Kory James
Aug 5, 20223 min read
Lucid Dreaming: How Inception Gets It Wrong
Let me start out by saying I’m a sucker for any Christopher Nolan movie, Inception included. Nolan’s capacity to condense complex,...
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Kory James
Aug 4, 20221 min read
Soldier Resurrected
A lesson I learned (or perhaps relearned) this week. Soldier Resurrected Burn me to ashes, so I can be reborn. I'm as dead as the past...
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Kory James
Jul 22, 20223 min read
Brave New World: Our Dystopia of Comfort
If asked what the most prophetic dystopian fiction classic of all time is, most would likely point to Orwell’s 1984 or Bradbury’s...
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Kory James
Jun 2, 20224 min read
Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Many-Worlds Interpretation and Existentialism vs. Nihilism
It’s been a while since a trip to the movie theatre left me like this. Eyes teared up, jaw sore from laughing, and wonder-induced...
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Kory James
Apr 28, 20223 min read
The Ring of Gyges: Should the Internet be Transparent?
It’s a hot topic, and temperature’s only rising: should the Internet stay true to its founding virtues of decentralized mass anonymity or...
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Kory James
Feb 25, 20222 min read
What is Your Ithaca?
At its core, my song Ithaca (Going Home) is a love song to mythology for its influence on my life and countless others across millennia....
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Kory James
Nov 9, 20211 min read
ARIADNE Cyberpunk Lyric Video
LYRIC VIDEO FOR ARIADNE OUT NOW!! Ariadne is a rock reinterpretation of the ancient Greek labyrinth myth in which the hero Theseus is...
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Kory James
Oct 26, 20211 min read
Atom and the Universe
Hey guys…guess what…I PUBLISHED A BOOK!! That’s right, my astronomy-themed sci-fi children’s book Atom and the Universe is available now...
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Kory James
Jul 7, 20213 min read
The Infinite Library
How do we navigate this infinite library? There are so many choices to make, competing ideas to consider when making said choices, and...
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Kory James
May 30, 20211 min read
The Man on the Fence
The man on the fence is a coward, And with vitriol he must be showered, For to arrive hence as a man on a fence He must never have gave...
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Kory James
Apr 11, 20211 min read
No Man's Land - A Short Poem
No Man's Land By: Kory James The battlefield rings with gunshots and vitriol As another white-flag waver falls through a pigeonhole. A...
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Kory James
Jan 29, 20212 min read
A Better Bridge
“I refuse to buy into this tired narrative, that anyone who doesn’t run with me is a fool.” Wish I wrote this one – today I’m posting a...
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