These are selected and edited short essays, over the years, from the Hornby Island monthly newsletter The First Edition.

Art Matters
Authenticity
Being A Statistic
Better Luck Next Time
Big Dada
Dear Mr. Trump
Does Smoke Get In Your Ayes
Doing Good
Dyslexicon Of Neoillogicisms
Eutopia
Face To Face
Free Will And Determinism
How Do You Know
How Matter Minds
How To Shop For Shoes
Maxwell’s Demon
Melancholia
Mind Over Matter
Money And Monogamy
Monsters Of Nature?
On Guard For Thee
Other People’s Money
Push The Button
Rent
Self-Transcendence
S.O.S. Save Our (Night) Skies
S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
SuperCapitalisticWealthExtractioGnosis
Technocracy
Teleology At Thanksgiving
The (R)Evolution Of Power
The Dirty Word
The F**Kit List
The Gated Intellectual Community
The Meaning Of Meaning
The Parable Of The Ants
The Skeptic’s Guide To The Universe And Beyond
The World In A Box
Thinking The Unthinkable
Toward A Secular Religion
What Are You Anyway?
Why Be Kind?
Why I Am Not An Art Critic
Why The Grass Looks Green(Er)
Yin And Yang
Your Logic Or Your Life