🚨 Look around you. Democracy isn’t dying in some distant place—it’s being dismantled right where you stand. The world you wake up to, the choices you make, the news you consume—everything is shaped by forces you can’t see. But those forces? They’re shifting. And the democracy you thought you were living in? It may already be gone. 🚨 We still vote. Elections still happen. Leaders change. So why does it […]
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.
I am The Northern Dragon. I have watched the ages turn like the pages of an endless tome. I have seen empires rise from fire and fall to dust. The tide of reason once swept across the world, washing away ignorance and fear. But now, I watch as the currents shift once more, and the light dims. What once seemed unshakable trembles. The voices of wisdom grow hoarse, drowned beneath the roar of division and certainty.
Society today rests on a fundament of principles. World views. Things which we believe to be absolutely true and eternally valid. One of those – in some ways by far the most important of them – is the idea of democracy. Democracy (literally: rule by the people) is the glue which links all of the various elements of our society together. It is made possible by the essential idea that […]
Our reality is defined by what we can think and sense. Technology has given us a greater reach than ever before. We can visit – both physically and virtually – almost any area on Earth, when and if we should want to. We have, literally at our fingertips, access to an unprecedented universe of information; more than any human soul of any previous century even dreamed of. Physically – and […]
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 […]
Northern Dragon 