Yukine Sakai

Rather, these stories are conservative in the way that Hallmark movies and the art filling Europe’s cathedrals are both conservative: they exist to confirm a reader’s preexisting beliefs rather than to help her discover new ones.

https://lithub.com/on-the-conservatism-of-contemporary-literary-fiction/

Eventually, all elites are met with the temptation to turn extraction into exploitation. Once a system of extraction has been established, the elite is tempted to take more and more and to think that unlimited power, wealth, and comfort are theirs by right.

Why Empires Fail - A Marxist theory

In ancient traditions, the [spiral] form often represents cycles. The triskele, for example, consists of three interlocking spirals thought to symbolize death, life, and rebirth or the triad of mind, body, and spirit. Spirals also emerge naturally in seashells and plants, sometimes linked to the concept of the golden mean, also known as the “divine