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Mapping Civilization: An Attempt to Understand How Knowledge and Meaning Shape Each Other
This essay is an attempt to describe civilization as a living system that learns through reflection. It begins in abstraction, branches into two movements — one building knowledge and the other building meaning — and loops back when reflection reshapes both. It is not a conclusion but a working map toward truth and coherence.
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The Jungian Transition: From Faith to the Cult of the Self
The modern obsession with self-expression and therapy didn’t emerge by accident. It’s the endpoint of a 2,000-year intellectual journey—from ancient faith through Protestant guilt, Kant’s subjectivity, Hegel’s spirit, Marx’s history, and finally Freud’s psyche. The result? The cult of the self that now rules our digital age.
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Marx, Modernity, and the Machinery of Meaning
An assessment of Marx as a philosopher of alienation rather than revolution—tracing how capitalism, communism, and AI all emerge from the same faith in material mastery, and arguing for a new balance between technological power and moral purpose.
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Mastery
A man sought to meet a Master; When the Master was a student he grew tired of the world; For what he saw in the world could only be called entertainment; As a serious man devoted to his art; He tried this and that; He traversed deserts in the search of something; Until he found…
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Shifting Gears: how startups are cleaning up transportation in India
A version of this article appeared in Forbes https://bit.ly/3LvIiQK
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Transcendence of the Self: a psychological perspective
Buddha started his life in a palace, surrounded by pleasure. The king, his father, intentionally created a world of beauty and Order. Despite this, he stepped out and saw the real world. He saw Suffering and misery and only then reached perfection. Humans build their lives into this Order, but in the insecurities, judgements, and…
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The psychology of money: A summary
People act from their experiences. Don\’t judge from yours. Luck & Risk is all around you. They don\’t fit the stories you want to tell. If you can\’t recognize when you have enough, you will soon have nothing. Warren Buffet could have been an ordinary investor if not for his longevity. Investing – if done…
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The Pursuit
Man possess gifts bestowed to him by Nature Most miss them Several attempt to realize them Only to stop or fail or give up Knowing that they have done well A few see it and are compelled by it Like metal to the magnet Without a choice Like moth to a flame They live for…
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The Ego
What does it mean to have an ego? Where does the ego arise from? Man seeks to answer these questions through intellect He traps himself in the way of the Mind The Ego looks at the past, it sees the future, it perceives and creates desire Little does this man know, that these multiply his…
