DAREN JONESCU

Enjoying the view from Limbo

Tagged: self-delusion

Ideas and Reflections

The Climbers

Two climbers in different fields can understand and respect one another, and perhaps even be friends — with a wink. Two climbers in the same field can understand and respect one another, and may even appear to like one another, albeit with a slight sneer. But to the climber, nothing is more offensive, more viscerally disruptive, than the presence of a non-climber within...

Ideas and Reflections

Reflections on Human Nature

We all know less than we think we know — and more than we are willing to admit to ourselves.

There is no other known species with the ability to recast its weakness as strength and its defeat as swagger. Humans are uniquely resourceful at enslaving themselves and calling it freedom….