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The Chaos Preservation
Documentary filmmaker exposes how creative vision gets "corrected" from childhood through careers, connecting personal suppression to who runs—and ruins—the world.
Gael MacLean
16 min read


I Am That Eichmann
How ordinary people become complicit in evil. A meditation on Eichmann, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and recognizing our own capacity for darkness.
Gael MacLean
12 min read


The Bengali Tea Boy Consideration
A reflection on navigating political exhaustion, family divisions, and the discovery that we're all serving each other badly-made tea while complaining about the taste.
Gael MacLean
10 min read


The Question That Broke Me Open
Your child's iPad isn't just harmful—it's designed to be. Former tech insider reveals the architecture of digital control and how parents can break free now.
Gael MacLean
5 min read


Until the Sky Empties Itself of Names
A meditation on finding meaning through Buddhist practice, exploring the bodhisattva path of compassion and the radical acceptance of impermanence.
Gael MacLean
10 min read


America's Working Poor
Working families one paycheck from homelessness. Food banks running dry. Federal safety net workers about to need the safety net. The thin line is fraying.
Gael MacLean
14 min read


How Global Capital Is Buying the Death of Democracy
The system isn't broken—it's working perfectly. Just not for you. How global elites are funding the death of democracy in plain sight.
Gael MacLean
23 min read


How America Is Shredding Its Own Golden Ticket
This isn't economic decline. This is economic demolition—and it's being done deliberately by people who are cashing in the golden ticket that created 80 years of American prosperity.
Gael MacLean
12 min read


We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
This is what we do. This is what we have always done. We take the language of revolution and turn it into self-improvement.
Gael MacLean
5 min read


The Thing We Cannot Lose
We are faced with the uncomfortable truth that we've been so carefully trained to avoid. We live in a culture that's become expert at manufacturing comfortable lies, and we've become expert at consuming them.
Gael MacLean
5 min read


What Is 2 + 2?
This is emergency territory - a reflection on how our collective ability to distinguish truth from fiction is dissolving just when we need it most to survive as a species.
Gael MacLean
8 min read


The Yoga Class Incident
Sex after seventy requires preparation, patience, and possibly professional assistance. Also, always tell someone where you're going when attempting new positions -- you never know when you'll need an emergency extraction.
Mavis Brennan
7 min read


The Afternoon Delight That Wasn't
I remember a time when "afternoon delight" meant a little nooky. Now it means a nap, a heating pad, and maybe a bowl of soup if I'm feeling particularly adventurous.
Mavis Brennan
4 min read


The Politics of Hunger
Famine as political technology. From Churchill's Bengal to Stalin's Ukraine, from Mao's China to today's Gaza and Sudan, the same patterns emerge with mechanical precision.
Gael MacLean
9 min read


The Mathematics of Loss
A meditation on personal and planetary grief, exploring how love persists when its objects—mothers, ecosystems—fade beyond recovery.
Gael MacLean
8 min read


The Architecture of Cruelty
How much do we all contribute to the culture of cruelty that is taking over the world?
Gael MacLean
7 min read


The Arithmetic of Emergency
A volunteer firefighter chronicles the brutal arithmetic of climate change in the American West—uninsurable homes, dying wells, and a democracy distracted.
Gael MacLean
5 min read


The Red Button and the Child's Desk
This is the story of how we got here—from children practicing death under school desks to adults electing someone who treats nuclear war like prime-time television.
Gael MacLean
6 min read


What If They Had a Revolution and No One Came?
Local uprising postponed indefinitely due to scheduling conflicts and general malaise Revolution cancelled due to lack of interest. News...
Gael MacLean
4 min read


The Magpie Intervention
A hilarious true story about the day I tried to "rescue" baby magpies, learned nothing about birds, and everything about staying out of Mother Nature's business.
Gael MacLean
7 min read


The Art of Looking Back
On the necessity of turning away to survive, and the greater necessity of turning back. A meditation on witness, trauma, and our shared humanity.
Gael MacLean
5 min read


The Politics of Cruelty
An examination of how cruelty transforms from political liability to credential, and what this evolution reveals about America's democratic future.
Gael MacLean
6 min read


The Red Hat Fits: My Three Years Inside
How ordinary people join cults: A deeply personal look at the psychology behind political radicalization and why no one is immune to manipulation.
Gael MacLean
12 min read


Sympathy For The Devil: A Dark Mirror to Our Times
Exploring how the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" prophetically warned of moral ambiguity and human complicity in evil across history to our present day.
Gael MacLean
3 min read
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