Category: The Narrow Gate

Essay 16 — What was said before the room was built Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space The preceding two essays named what can be built — the structural repairs, the shovel-ready work, the floor beneath the displacement wave. They are real and worth building. They are not the whole answer. The whole answer is older. It…

Essay 15 — What can be built before the window closes Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese proverb “We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one…

Essay 14 — What a structure that can actually stand would look like Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” — John Kenneth Galbraith “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” — Walter Lippmann What it would take to build a different room…

Essay 13 — How the room that worked was converted into one that cannot Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” — Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788 “This disposition to admire, and almost to…

Essay 12 — Two Rooms. Two Frames. One Year: 2031. Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked, 1935 “The hour is coming, and now is.” John 5:25 Essay…

Essay 11 — What the frame excluded from consideration Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away. They oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.” Micah 2:2 “Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, until there is…

Essay 10 — The narrowing has not retired. It has found new instruments. Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space Every age has its own way of not knowing what it knows. — attributed Maryhill Stonehenge — a monument to what institutional thinking costs in human lives, under the cosmos that was there before it began and will…

Essay 9 — From Vedic cosmology to quantum mechanics — independent lines of inquiry arriving by very different roads at the same address Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, c. 6th century BC “It from bit.” — John Archibald Wheeler,…

Essay 8 — If souls cycle through races, genders, and social positions, no group is permanently superior — and every arrangement that depended on that claim loses its theological foundation Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” —…

Essay 7 — What thousands of people found at the threshold — and why it terrifies the institution more than any research methodology Steve Sagnotti · steves-head.space “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” — Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, c. 1395 —…