When Portugal will, next year, celebrate its fifty years of democracy, the main event will likely take place in the capital’s main plaza, commonly referred to as Terreiro do Paço (Palace Yard), one of the biggest in Europe, and the former seat of royal power. On one end, the plaza oversees the Tagus river. On the other, former King Carlos I and his heir prince Luís Filipe were assassinated in 1908.| Palladium Magazine
Recognizing the unique signs of a possible civilizational collapse, rather than being blindsided by it, requires a bold thesis as to what the core engine of our civilization is. Without a clear and correct theory of what makes our civilization function, signs of decay will go unnoticed or rationalized, rather than recognized.| Palladium Magazine
I will never forget the sunset when I first saw the solar system with my naked eyes. I was standing on the deck of a boat plodding slowly through the Nile River, closer to Sudan than to the Mediterranean Sea. I had not yet seen the Egyptian night sky, so I was excited to be so far south, with so much unlit desert on either side. | Palladium Magazine