Northern Dragon

… life in the twilight years of modern-day democracy …

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Do You Remember the Future?

The future was once a promise—of progress, of discovery, of unrelenting motion forward. But promises are fragile things. Civilization has always imagined itself climbing an eternal staircase, each step an innovation, each breakthrough a confirmation of its own destiny. Yet, step back, and the picture shifts: civilizations rise, civilizations fall, and progress… slows.

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The Voice of the Dragon

We live in the last, golden days of the Age of Enlightenment. Already the old institutions are crumbling into decay. Slowly, ever so slowly – and ever so inexorably. The world is no longer what it was. That, of course, is always the case. But the world to come… that world will have little enough of light in it. In saying this, do I sound just like those doomsday prophets […]

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