About: plato

Those who immerse themselves in the ancient world are often faced with a number of ‘-cides’. All offensive and forbidden, you can’t get through a myth or a history book without encountering suicide, homicide, infanticide, matricide, fratricide, regicide… to name a few. But perhaps, in our modern era of 2021, there may be a new

You may have noticed, dear reader, that this week’s monday mailbag is coming out on wednesday…which is a little strange. However, this does mean two issues in one day, which is no doubt very exciting! The reason for this is because I have just come back from the end of the world… literally. I’m not

There are many ways to make change in the world, many sorts of paths to achieve your goals. Anyone familiar with the X-men stories will recognize the non-violence tactic versus the action packed version (often with deadly results), as exemplified by Professor X and Magneto. What is perhaps lesser known is that the Marvel comic,

History is replete with examples of those getting what they deserve… as well as those who do not. Living in a land where so many Nazis fled is proof enough. One of the main organizers of the ‘final solution,’ Adolf Eichman was kidnapped from a well-to-do neighborhood and shipped to Israel for trial. Meanwhile the

I’m always a big fan of liminality. For those unfamiliar with the word, it is an anthropological term, coming from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”. The concept is easy enough to grasp; it’s that strange moment in between two boundaries, the transition between one stage and another. It’s a point of ritual, a