Eileen’s Substack
“An unexamined society is not worth living in”, therefore, I contemplate the nature of modern human society and then share my thoughts.
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The Tragedy of Reducing Higher Education to Basic Career Preparation (opens the original)
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This morning, I contemplate the deepening tragedy of the ongoing destruction and debasement of education in the United States:The current federal assault on federal student loans that get directed to pay for certain types of degrees—particularly the arts—extends and codifies what’s been happening in U.S. education for at least the past 40 years. As capitalism, and the need it creates for individuals to accumulate “enough” wealth to continue to pay to survive in this world, have strengthened thei
Becoming Humane (opens the original)
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Do you want to know what I view as something quite beautiful about humanity? We run constant experiments with reality, test our limits and test its limits.Maybe that’s part of why we are here? To serve as front-line cosmic explorers within an amazingly alive, increasingly conscious universe?Eileen’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<
Detangling the Web of Economic Lies (opens the original)
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FYI, on the U.S. national economy:At the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January 2025, the U.S. average 30-year fixed mortgage rate was hovering around 7.0%. That spike occurred shortly after the entire, depressed global supply chain started firing back up, post-COVID, and as prices climbed worldwide while businesses sought desperately to recover some sort of profitability, after several hard years of economic struggle. Eileen’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To r
Making the Inner Shift From What I Know, to How I Know (opens the original)
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Part of the reason I sense that so many conspiracy theories exist may be because the world is far messier and unpredictable in its behavior than our neat and tidy linear logic thinking minds care to admit. Events don’t repeat like movie reruns; no two experiences will ever be exactly alike. The sheer volume of variables that go into generating a visible event in reality actually overwhelm our limited mental capacity to grasp even a tiny fraction of the movements involved in creating even the sim
An Open Letter to Donald Trump (opens the original)
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Attention, Donald Trump:You said in an interview on Fox News on Sunday night, Aug 30th of 2026:Eileen’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<div clas
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