Justin Deschamps

Cultology: The Pen and the Sovereign Mind I. The Pen and the Validation A few weeks ago a post made the rounds about a Norwegian neuroscientist who spent two decades demonstrating that writing by hand changes the brain in ways typing does not. I shared it, and it traveled — because it landed on a nerve that a great many thoughtful people have been quietly nursing for years. If you are one of those people, you probably recognize the feeling the post gave you. It was vindication. Maybe you have kept a notebook while everyone around you went paperless. Maybe you have felt, without quite being able to defend it, that something was lost when your thinking migrated onto a screen — that ideas cap...

Cultology: The Coerced Investor—Data Centers are the symptom, not the problem A Hearing That Decides Nothing In the spring of 2026, in Box Elder County, Utah, a few county commissioners approved the project area for what may become the largest data center on the planet. The facility — christened “Stratos,” the Utah anchor of investor Kevin O’Leary’s “Wonder Valley” venture — would sprawl across roughly sixty-two square miles, a footprint larger than Manhattan. At full build-out it is projected to draw something on the order of nine gigawatts of power, more than twice the average electricity consumption of the entire state. The land was cleared for it by a taxpayer-funded state agency, which...