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My Interview with NPR’s This American Life, the Origin of White Worship, the Nature of God, and Lessons in Leadership from Confucius and Buddhism (13 min read) THE NAME OF THE MASTER “At 15, I set my heart on learning; At 30, I took my moral stand; At 40, I have no more doubts; At…
My Interview with NPR’s This American Life, the Origin of White Worship, the Nature of God, and Lessons in Leadership from Confucius and Buddhism (12 min read) THE GHOST-THEORY OF HISTORY “What if God was one of us?” — Joan Osborne In his 1898 book “The Principles of Sociology”, Herbert Spencer — English philosopher, biologist,…
My Interview with NPR’s This American Life, the Origin of White Worship, the Nature of God, and Lessons in Leadership from Confucius and Buddhism (14 min read) ON EDUCATION “The supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways, as “domination” and as “intellectual and moral leadership”. A social group dominates antagonistic groups,…
Holding an Ontological Mirror Up to The Model Minority (10 min read) THE ROOTS OF THE WORLD “Who could ever calculate the path of a molecule? How do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by falling grains of sand?” — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Of course, I’ve never been a big…
Holding an Ontological Mirror Up to The Model Minority (16 min read) THE CULTURAL AND POLICE REPRESSION OF ASIAN AMERICAN MEN “This is the success story of a success story.” ― Ellen Wu, The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority The Model Minority role the U.S. government offered to…
Holding an Ontological Mirror Up to The Model Minority (16 min read) “Dokkaebi are legendary creatures from Korean mythology and folklore. Dokkaebi, also known as Korean goblins, possess extraordinary powers and abilities that are used to interact with humans, at times playing tricks on them and at times helping them. Most Korean legends have Dokkaebi…
What Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, and the Esoteric Can Teach Asian America About Love (10 min read) DARE TO BE MAD “Navigation brought man face to face with the uncertainty of destiny, where each is left to himself and every departure might always be the last. The madman on his crazy boat sets sail for…
What Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, and the Esoteric Can Teach Asian America About Love (8 min read) SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the…
What Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, and the Esoteric Can Teach Asian America About Love (16 min read) THE WIZARDING WORLD OF WHITE SUPREMACY “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke According to French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan, the Signifier refers to something that refers to something else³⁸. A good…
What Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, and the Esoteric Can Teach Asian America About Love (15 min read) ONLINE DATING AS A MICROCOSM OF ASIAN AMERICA “Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe.” — Galileo “Microcosm and Macrocosm” refers to a vision of the cosmos where an individual part (microcosm) reflects the…
