The Cult of Competence: How We Were Gaslit Into Believing Humanity Is Smarter Than It Is
Once you strip away the corporate PR, the soft-focus documentaries, and the TED Talk civilization we're spoon-fed, you’ll find something both obvious and disturbing: Most people are deeply, irreparably incompetent. Not in a cynical or cruel sense—but in a literal, cognitive, spiritual, and psychological one.
We’re not living in an enlightened global society. We’re living in a glorified daycare for post-adolescents—a padded playpen administered by petty bureaucrats and narcissistic “leaders” whose core qualification is their ability to form cliques, mimic authority, and bluff their way into influence.
Beneath the Quiet Hills: Timothy Leary, LSD, and the Dark Psychedelic Legacy of Millbrook, New York
Here, in the early 1960s, the sprawling Hitchcock Estate became ground zero for one of the most radical and controversial chapters in American cultural history. At its center was Timothy Leary, the Harvard psychologist-turned-psychedelic evangelist, whose experiments with LSD weren’t just about science — they were about rewriting the very nature of human consciousness. But the story of Millbrook is far more than just a tale of drugs and counterculture. It’s a labyrinth of shadowy government ties, elite family secrets, occult undertones, and a communal search for transcendence that veered dangerously close to madness.