It is September, again. I close the window of my dorm room to shut out the deafening siren of yet another ambulance rushing a poor soul to the emergency room. Dampens my spirit, that noise. The sound of impending calamity. Of death, beckoning. Everyday. Many times, every day. I try not to think about it. ...

The process of “civilization” is a continuous negotiation of what it means to impose order on a world given to entropic tendencies. The traffic warden, the queue, the systematization of knowledge, and institutions built to administer justice are all cogs in humanity’s “anti-chaos” machine. Greek and Hebrew cosmogonies equally hold this perspective – the creation ...