Archive - Uncle John’s Substack

Reserve & composure are high status social indicators anyone can develop

Jul 4 •

June 2025

Reflections on habits of mind following a series of conversations with DeepSeek

Jun 28 •

Lessons from the Singles Years

Socio-cultural & personal from the dawn of Clown in the NUC

Jun 26 •

Scripting Pareidolia

Reality, desirability, and clown shoe walking into "fool me once..."

Jun 22 •

Faith & Expertise

Category error, inversion, and word magic when reality comes home to roost

Jun 19 •

How could reprogramming organic status around a centralized beast pillar go wrong?

Jun 8 •

May 2025

Script Rhetoric & it’s Discontents

Trump's absurd Ukraine blather through a three-part audience lens

May 31 •

Is there a Script Doctor in the House?

What is and isn't happening from a structural perspective, with a focus on Ukraine

May 30 •

Downstream from Reality

Replacing clear life paths with college roulette opened new mass socio-cultural spaces

May 25 •

Third Body Problems

Dividing one of functionally two species refines & muddies. That’s more widely applicable

May 19 •

Frame of reference, communication & perpetual fake opposition in the House of Lies

May 13 •

April 2025

It's been long enough for a selective look in on The Script

Apr 20 •

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