The Architecture of Certainty
At the Strait of Hormuz this week, commercial vessels are still queuing for passage — more than a dozen a day, according to shipping trackers — even as strikes resume somewhere over Iran and a ceasefire that was...
Musings
Musings
Through thought provoking articles, essays, and reflections, Richard shares his visionary insights, challenging us to reimagine the world we live in. This archive brings Richard's public writing back onto his own domain while preserving the original Substack and Patreon networks.
The Art & Science of Anticipation
A Study in Expanded Consciousness
The Weight a Beach Cannot Hold
On the evening of 14 December 2025, an Islamic State–inspired gunman opened fire on roughly a thousand people gathered at Bondi Beach to light candles for Hanukkah.
Architecture of Enmity
A coach in a gymnasium in Lima tells a squad of eleven-year-old girls, minutes before a regional match, that the team on the other side of the net are their enemies for the next ninety minutes.
The Forest Does Not Fall At Once
The woman who grills chicken over charcoal at the mouth of my soi has raised her prices twice since the second week of July.
Reality. What a Concept!
The Power of Our Consensual Frameworks
A Cartography of Ghosts
Navigating the Regimes of Industrial Economism
What Holds Everything Together
Essential Tenets of a Civilisation Worth Inhabiting
From Parliamentary Theatre to Civic Wisdom
The Westminster Model's Terminal Decline
Albert Fish and the Manufactured Monstrous
The Futures We Refuse To Prevent
Choosing the Horizon
Navigators, Narratives, and the Fate of Worlds
When Leadership Confronts Reality
The Collapse of Consent
When the Grey Zone Becomes the Main Theatre
War, intelligence, and the slow unravelling of the public realm
Climate Change Policies
Deploying Eco-pragmatism to Frame Action
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